Catheter-directed therapy for submassive pulmonary embolism after unsuccessful systemic thrombolysis

oleh: Chang Dong, Shufen Jiang, Donghua Ji, Yingqun Ji, Zhonghe Zhang

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Wiley 2017-11-01

Deskripsi

Catheter-directed therapy (CDT) has emerged as an important treatment for pulmonary embolism (PE). We present a patient with life-threatening submassive PE with transient hypotension, progressive right ventricular dysfunction, and respiratory failure who failed anticoagulation and had little improvement with systemic thrombolysis, but responded well to catheter-directed therapy.