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Systemic Air Embolism Following Diagnostic Bronchoscopy

A 51-year-old man was admitted to have a nodule evaluated using chest computed tomography (CT). Shortly after curetting and transbronchial biopsies via bronchoscopy, hypotension, bradycardia, unconsciousness, and left hemiplegia appeared and resolved within one hour. Head CT showed cerebral air embo...

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Autores principales: Tsuji, Taisuke, Sonobe, Shoko, Koba, Taro, Maekura, Toshiya, Takeuchi, Naoko, Tachibana, Kazunobu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5457926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28381749
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.56.7836