Pulmonary tumor embolism can be a cause of respiratory failure in patients with cancer even though it occurs rarely.
We describe a 56-year-old man who underwent a pulmonary tumor embolectomy using cardiopulmonary bypass on beating heart combined with inferior vena cava embolectomy and right radical nephrectomy. Aggressive surgical treatment in this severe case is necessary not only to reduce the fatal outcome of pulmonary embolism in the short run, but also to improve the oncological prognosis in the long term.
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Shim H, Kim WS, Kim YW, Yang SS, Kim DK. Are you the author?
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Korea.
Reference: Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2012 Oct;45(5):323-5.
doi: 10.5090/kjtcs.2012.45.5.323
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 23130307
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