Intracardiac tromboembolism during liver transplantation.

Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim (Engl Ed)

Servicio de Anestesiología, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile.

Published: April 2019

We describe a case of intraoperative cardiac trombosis during orthotopic liver transplant surgery that resulted in intraoperative death. By using transesophageal echocardiography, the cause of the descompensation of the patient could be determined and the mechanism of trombus migration from thrombi from the venous circulation to the left heart was accurately observed.

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