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Systemic air embolism causing acute stroke and myocardial infarction after percutaneous transthoracic lung biopsy – a case report
The air embolism in this case was likely to have been caused by positioning the patient in a prone position, which was associated with the lesion to be biopsied being at a maximum height over the left atrium. Due to the resulting negative pressure, air entered through a fistula that formed between t...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4859960/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27154545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-016-0478-z |