Surgical Pulmonary Embolectomy Outcomes Not Affected by Thrombus Location Surgical pulmonary embolectomy for peripheral distribution of thrombus demonstrated positive outcomes in patients with either ...

Often relegated to the second or third tier of treatment options, surgical management of patients with massive or high-risk submassive acute pulmonary embolism (PE)—either with embolectomy or ...

Open surgical pulmonary embolectomy was almost discarded 20 years ago, but when performed quickly—as opposed to the old "watch-and-wait" approach—in the right patients, the operation is appropriate ...

A new American Heart Association scientific statement suggests surgery be considered for more people with high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE). The statement, published today in the American Heart ...

Evidence suggests that high-risk patients with pulmonary embolism can benefit from surgical management, according to a scientific statement issued by the American Heart Association. “This statement ...

“I was pleasantly surprised that the endoportal technology provided a level of control similar to what I experience in an open surgical embolectomy, with the added ability to directly access a much ...

A surgical procedure that was virtually abandoned in the 1950s because of its high mortality rates in trying to save patients with acute pulmonary embolism may actually prevent more deaths in severely ...

A new American Heart Association scientific statement presents evidence that more high-risk patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) may benefit from surgical management. Refined definitions of risk ...

SAN DIEGO, CA—Cardiothoracic surgeons should be involved earlier in the treatment process for patients with high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) in order to potentially improve outcomes, according to a ...

It was with these considerations in mind that we undertook to examine our own experience with arterial emboli to determine what place, if any, the operation of embolectomy should play in the therapy ...

Boston, MA - A review of the International Cooperative Pulmonary Embolism Registry (ICOPER) has shown that adjunctive therapy with thrombolysis in massive-pulmonary-embolism (PE) patients did not ...