Pulmonary Thromboembolism Following Spine Surgery: Clinical Suspicion is the Key

Pulmonary thromboembolism following spine surgery, although rare, could end into devastating outcome. Gold standard for it diagnosis is pulmonary CT angiography but in operating theatre, clinical suspicion is the key to diagnose. Here we report a case of pulmonary embolism with classic clinical find...

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Autores principales: Mottaghi, Kamran, Safari, Farhad, Nashibi, Masoud, Sezari, Parisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8710222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34976091
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author Mottaghi, Kamran
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Nashibi, Masoud
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description Pulmonary thromboembolism following spine surgery, although rare, could end into devastating outcome. Gold standard for it diagnosis is pulmonary CT angiography but in operating theatre, clinical suspicion is the key to diagnose. Here we report a case of pulmonary embolism with classic clinical findings which approved using pulmonary CT angiography and echocardiography.
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spelling pubmed-87102222021-12-30 Pulmonary Thromboembolism Following Spine Surgery: Clinical Suspicion is the Key Mottaghi, Kamran Safari, Farhad Nashibi, Masoud Sezari, Parisa Tanaffos Case Report Pulmonary thromboembolism following spine surgery, although rare, could end into devastating outcome. Gold standard for it diagnosis is pulmonary CT angiography but in operating theatre, clinical suspicion is the key to diagnose. Here we report a case of pulmonary embolism with classic clinical findings which approved using pulmonary CT angiography and echocardiography. National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2021-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8710222/ /pubmed/34976091 Text en Copyright© 2021 National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
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title_fullStr Pulmonary Thromboembolism Following Spine Surgery: Clinical Suspicion is the Key
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title_short Pulmonary Thromboembolism Following Spine Surgery: Clinical Suspicion is the Key
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8710222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34976091
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