Describes a clinical case of embolectomy used to treat massive pulmonary embolism following a cesarean delivery.
Embolectomy may be feasible for massive peripartum PE; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Dyspnea and hypotension developed in a 35-year-old woman about 24 hours after an apparently uncomplicated cesarean delivery at term. The patient was acutely distressed and fully conscious, with a blood pressure of 80/60 mm Hg, a heart rate of 148 beats/min and a respiratory rate of 36 breaths/min.
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