Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Istanbul, Turkey
Biography
Recently, catheter based therapies have been gaining more popularity in the management of patients with massive pulmonary embolism. We report a 57-year old Turkish woman presenting with bilateral massive pulmonary embolism causing hemodynamic instability after cardiac surgery and she was treated successfully by using unilateral ultrasound-assisted catheter-directed thrombolysis.