Pulmonary thrombectomy in a patient with hemoglobin Nottingham.

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Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Division of Cardiac Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Published: July 2007

A 36-year-old female with hemoglobin Nottingham (betaFG 5(98) Val --> Gly) causing severe hemolytic anemia and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension presented with symptomatic subacute right lower lobar pulmonary arterial thrombosis requiring surgical pulmonary thrombectomy. We describe a successful, multidisciplinary approach to the problems associated with this disease, particularly with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass and deep hypothermic circulatory arrest.

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