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2014•Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic SurgeryOpen access

Surgical embolectomy for intermediate-risk acute pulmonary embolism

Sébastien Champion, Éric Braunberger

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Recent series reported excellent results of surgical embolectomy in patients with acute pulmonary embolism with mortality rates of about 5-9% (range 0-13%). However, very low mortality of patients receiving medical treatment for intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism (1.5 and 2.8% at 7 and 30 days, respectively) was recently reported. Thus, we would like to challenge the indication for surgical embolectomy in the subset of intermediate-risk patients.

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Recent series reported excellent results of surgical embolectomy in patients with acute pulmonary embolism with mortality rates of about 5-9% (range 0-13%). However, very low mortality of patients receiving medical treatment for intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism (1.5 and 2.8% at 7 and 30 days, respectively) was recently reported. Thus, we would like to challenge the indication for surgical embolectomy in the subset of intermediate-risk patients.

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Recent series reported excellent results of surgical embolectomy in patients with acute pulmonary embolism with mortality rates of about 5-9% (range 0-13%). However, very low mortality of patients receiving medical treatment for intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism (1.5 and 2.8% at 7 and 30 days, respectively) was recently reported. Thus, we would like to challenge the indication for surgical embolectomy in the subset of intermediate-risk patients.

Key concepts: Medicine, Embolectomy, Pulmonary embolism, Surgery, Embolism, Mortality rate, Cardiology, Internal medicine

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