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Presumed Air by Vitrectomy Embolisation (PAVE) a potentially fatal syndrome

BACKGROUND: Since first being reported in the ophthalmology literature in 2010, three cases (one fatal) of suspected venous air embolism (VAE) during vitrectomy have received little notice, and the vitrectomy/VAE connection has been described as unproven. We investigated the ability of air to exit t...

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Autores principales: Morris, Robert E, Sapp, Mathew R, Oltmanns, Matthew H, Kuhn, Ferenc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4033178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23793850
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-303367