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Saddle pulmonary embolism: right ventricular strain an indicator for early surgical approach

Current mainstay treatment for pulmonary embolism (PE) includes oral anticoagulation, thrombolytic therapy, catheter embolectomy and acute surgical embolectomy. Surgical embolectomy is reserved for hemodynamically unstable patients (cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest) and contraindication to thrombol...

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Autores principales: Namana, Vinod, Siddiqui, Sabah, Balasubramanian, Ram, Sarasam, Rajeswer, Shetty, Vijay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4887829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27274856
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omw045