Systemic air embolism causing acute stroke and myocardial infarction after percutaneous transthoracic lung biopsy—a case report

Computed tomography (CT)-guided transthoracic lung biopsy is a common procedure for the diagnosis of pulmonary lesion. Pneumothorax, pulmonary hemorrhage and hemoptysis are the most common complications of the procedure. Air embolism is a rare serious complication. We reported a case with air emboli...

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Autores principales: Hung, Wei-Heng, Chang, Chun-Chi, Ho, Shang-Yun, Liao, Chiung-Ying, Wang, Bing-Yen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4571114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26374639
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-015-0329-3
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Sumario:Computed tomography (CT)-guided transthoracic lung biopsy is a common procedure for the diagnosis of pulmonary lesion. Pneumothorax, pulmonary hemorrhage and hemoptysis are the most common complications of the procedure. Air embolism is a rare serious complication. We reported a case with air embolism related acute ischemic stroke and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) simultaneously after percutaneous transthoracic lung biopsy.

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