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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 92, 442-445, Copyright © 1986 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Pulmonary embolectomy: a 25 year experience

DB Clarke and LD Abrams

For the past 25 years an emergency pulmonary embolectomy service has been offered to the hospitals serving a conurbation of 1.5 million. Fifty-five of these procedures have been performed during a short period of normothermic circulatory standstill produced by clamping the superior and inferior venae cavae. Of 36 patients who underwent pulmonary embolectomy without an episode of asystole or ventricular fibrillation, 35 survived the operation (97.2%). However, there were seven deaths during the postoperative period, three related to pulmonary embolism and four to other causes (mortality 20%). Conversely, in a group of 19 patients who had an episode of cardiac arrest, 14 died during or after the operation of pulmonary embolism and two of unrelated causes (mortality 73.7%). In properly selected patients this technique achieves a satisfactory measure of success. It can be used in hospitals that do not have cardiac surgical facilities and, because of its simplicity, it can be performed during the early period after pulmonary embolism when the risk of death is greatest.

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