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Systemic air embolism causing acute stroke and myocardial infarction after percutaneous transthoracic lung biopsy – a case report

The air embolism in this case was likely to have been caused by positioning the patient in a prone position, which was associated with the lesion to be biopsied being at a maximum height over the left atrium. Due to the resulting negative pressure, air entered through a fistula that formed between t...

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Publié dans:J Cardiothorac Surg
Auteurs principaux: Rehwald, Rafael, Loizides, Alexander, Wiedermann, Franz J., Grams, Astrid E., Djurdjevic, Tanja, Glodny, Bernhard
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: BioMed Central 2016
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4859960/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27154545
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-016-0478-z
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