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Pulmonary artery rupture as a complication of Swan-Ganz catheter application. Diagnosis and endovascular treatment: a single centre’s experience [PDF]
Advances in Interventional Cardiology, 2016 Introduction: The placement of a Swan-Ganz catheter into the pulmonary artery may lead to a number of complications (2–17%). In less than 0.2% of cases Swan-Ganz catheterization results in serious vascular damage – pulmonary artery rupture (PAR).
Piotr N. Rudziński +8 more
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Cells, 2021 Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a devastating condition affecting the pulmonary microvascular wall and endothelium, resulting in their partial or total obstruction.
Birger Tielemans +6 more
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Echocardiography versus right heart catheterization in class I pulmonary hypertension
Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2014 It has been agreed that pulmonary hypertension should be determined by right heart catheterization. However, being invasive and refused by many patients, echocardiography was thought to be a reasonable substitute to determine a solid diagnosis of ...
R.I.M. El-Korashy +3 more
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Pacing in Left Bundle-Branch Block During Swan-Ganz Catheterization [PDF]
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1988 To the Editor. —We read with interest the recent article by Morris and colleagues 1 that reported a fairly low rate of developing complete heart block (CHB) during Swan-Ganz (SG) catheterization in patients with left bundle-branch block (LBBB). We feel that this is an important finding since several sources, including recent advanced cardiac life ...
Lavie, Carl J., Gersh, Bernard J.
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Acute cardio-centric haemodynamic management preserves chronic cardiovascular function in pigs with high-thoracic spinal cord injury. [PDF]
J PhysiolAbstract figure legend Recent work has shown that treating the reduction in heart function following acute spinal cord injury (SCI) better optimizes peripheral haemodynamics and spinal cord oxygenation than the standard approach of using vasopressors.
Williams AM +13 more
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A double-knotted pulmonary artery catheter with large loop in the right internal jugular vein: A case report [PDF]
Kosin Medical Journal, 2018 Knotting of a pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) is a rare, but well-known complication of pulmonary artery (PA) catheterization. We report a case of a double-knotted PAC with a large loop in a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) undergoing liver ...
Kyoung Sub Yoon +5 more
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BMC Anesthesiology, 2021 Background Pulmonary artery catheter insertion is a routine practice in high-risk patients undergoing cardiac surgery. However, pulmonary artery catheter insertion is associated with numerous complications that can be devastating to the patient ...
Hoon Choi +4 more
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Secondary migration of a pre-existing central venous catheter due to a Swan-Ganz catheter insertion - A case report - [PDF]
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 2023 Background The entanglement of multiple central venous catheters is a rare and serious complication. The Swan-Ganz catheter is a responsible for various cases.
Joonho Cho +5 more
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Air embolism during off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery -A case report- [PDF]
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2012 There have been several reports of gas embolism occurring during off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (OPCAB) surgery. However, all these cases of air embolism were associated with the repair of venous circulation, using a CO2 blower. In this report, we
Choo-Hoon Chang +2 more
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Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, 2016 The authors present a case report of successful treatment of pulmonary artery perforation by endovascular stent graft implantation. Resumo: Os autores descrevem um caso de sucesso do tratamento da rotura da artéria pulmonar com a implantação de um stent ...
Filipa Melão +7 more
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