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Cureus
November 2024
Internal Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Phoenix, USA.
Acute pancreatitis, a sudden inflammatory condition, can lead to a hypercoagulable state resulting in complications such as deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE). This case report discusses a unique presentation of a massive PE in a patient with acute pancreatitis despite being on appropriate prophylactic anticoagulation. A 27-year-old man presented with acute abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting.
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October 2024
Department of Interventional Radiology, Worcestershire Acute Hospital NHS Trust, Worcester, GBR.
A 69-year-old male presented to the emergency department with sudden shortness of breath, three weeks after recovering from a COVID-19 infection. Despite having no significant prior medical history, the patient rapidly deteriorated, suffering a cardiac arrest. He was resuscitated and diagnosed with a massive saddle pulmonary embolism, confirmed via echocardiogram and computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA).
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November 2024
Department of Cardiology, St John University Hospital, Detroit, Michigan.
This article reports the case of a 42-year-old man who presented with a saddle pulmonary embolus complicated by normotensive cardiogenic shock. The patient was first stabilized with venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Then, while the patient was still on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, thrombectomy with a large-bore catheter device was performed that resulted in a large decrease in pulmonary artery pressures and a clinically significant increase in cardiac index, with rapid clinical improvement.
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October 2024
Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, GBR.
Thromb Res
December 2024
Respiratory Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal and Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria IRYCIS, Madrid, Spain; Medicine Department, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain; CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain. Electronic address:
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