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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;131:503-504
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Surgical management of pulmonary embolism

Pramod Bonde, MD, FRCS, Alastair Graham, MD, FRCS

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Hospitals, Belfast, BT12 6BA, United Kingdom

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

We read with interest the study reported by Leacche and associates 1 Go regarding their surgical experience in treating massive pulmonary embolism. We would like to congratulate the authors for their excellent outcomes in this relatively large number of patients and for the encouraging results that they achieved with this patient population. The authors used a technique of cardiopulmonary bypass and temporary flow reductions for visualization of the pulmonary arterial tree for clot removal.

In the past 3 months we have treated 3 patients with . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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John G. Byrne and Marzia Leacche
J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2006 131: 504. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]





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