Salvage pulmonary thromboembolectomy for massive pulmonary embolism in a child presented with syncope and subsequent cardiac arrest.
Pulmonary embolism is frequently under-recognised in children and, therefore, a high index of suspicion should be exerted on patients with exertional dyspnoea, presyncope/syncope and unexplained cardiopulmonary arrest. We discuss a 10-year-old previously healthy girl who presented with syncope and subsequent cardiac arrest related to massive pulmonary embolism and was salvaged successfully by emergent pulmonary embolectomy.
['Ak|Koray|K|', 'Birkan|Yasar|Y|', 'Akalın|Figen|F|', 'Günay|Deniz|D|']
D002648:Child D017128:Embolectomy D005260:Female D006323:Heart Arrest D006801:Humans D011655:Pulmonary Embolism D016879:Salvage Therapy D013575:Syncope D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Massive pulmonary embolism cardiac arrest embolectomy adolescent