Combined Extra- and Intrapleural Hematoma After Blunt Chest Injury in an Anticoagulated Patient

The objective of this study was to describe the atypical presentation of combined intrapleural and extrapleural hematomas in patients on anticoagulant therapy and explain the best workup and treatment for this pathology. This case report details the presentation, initial treatment, initial workup, a...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Anupam, Rubay, David, Lodin, Daud, Borrego, Robert, Lottenberg, Lawrence
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6716965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31511821
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5506
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author Gupta, Anupam
Rubay, David
Lodin, Daud
Borrego, Robert
Lottenberg, Lawrence
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description The objective of this study was to describe the atypical presentation of combined intrapleural and extrapleural hematomas in patients on anticoagulant therapy and explain the best workup and treatment for this pathology. This case report details the presentation, initial treatment, initial workup, and subsequent final treatment and workup of an elderly female patient that arrived at our trauma facility after suffering a blunt force trauma. The patient received anticoagulation therapy for her comorbidities prior to this incident. The outcome of interest was to better understand the best diagnostic and treatment modalities for treating combined intrapleural and extrapleural hematomas
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spelling pubmed-67169652019-09-11 Combined Extra- and Intrapleural Hematoma After Blunt Chest Injury in an Anticoagulated Patient Gupta, Anupam Rubay, David Lodin, Daud Borrego, Robert Lottenberg, Lawrence Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery The objective of this study was to describe the atypical presentation of combined intrapleural and extrapleural hematomas in patients on anticoagulant therapy and explain the best workup and treatment for this pathology. This case report details the presentation, initial treatment, initial workup, and subsequent final treatment and workup of an elderly female patient that arrived at our trauma facility after suffering a blunt force trauma. The patient received anticoagulation therapy for her comorbidities prior to this incident. The outcome of interest was to better understand the best diagnostic and treatment modalities for treating combined intrapleural and extrapleural hematomas Cureus 2019-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6716965/ /pubmed/31511821 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5506 Text en Copyright © 2019, Gupta et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
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