FATAL POST-OPERATIVE EMBOLISM

Post Splenectomy Fatal Pulmonary Embolism in a Patient with Moderate Hemophilia A

Hemophilia A is a bleeding disorder caused by defective production of factor VIII. The main concern associated with the disease is bleeding, especially after trauma and surgeries. Factor VIII replacement therapy is associated with substantial decrease of bleeding events during surgery. However, there have been a number of reports of thromboemblic events in this situ-ation. The present report de...

Fatal pulmonary embolism.

Massive pulmonary embolism is a dramatic, often fatal, event. If death is not immediate, embolectomy using cardiopulmonary bypass is feasible, and a num ber of reports have appeared in recent years attest ing to its value (1-3). However, emergency em bolectomy is not practical on a wide scale. In over 300 cases of pulmonary embolism with positive lung-scan findings, we have observed that major ...

Fatal tumour pulmonary embolism

A 30-year-old female with no significant past medical history was referred to our facility with sudden onset of shortness of breath. She had a low clinical probability for pulmonary thromboembolism and a computed tomography angiogram showed enlarged pulmonary arteries but no in situ thrombi. She developed recurrent episodes of hypotension and hypoxia, and was transferred to the intensive care u...

Fatal paradoxical coronary embolism.

Introduction Paradoxical embolism, the passage of embolic material from the venous to the systemic circulation through an intracardiac defect, most commonly presents as a cerebral event such as a stroke or transient ischaemic episode, or less frequently as a peripheral arterial occlusion. A case is presented of a patient who suffered a fatal myocardial infarction due to occlusion of both corona...

Non-fatal paradoxical air embolism.