Acute pulmonary thromboembolism – a rare case series and a short review
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 10
Abstract
Acute pulmonary thromboembolism is one of the common causes of vascular death after myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular accident. It is one of the leading preventable causes of death in hospitalised patients. We present three rare cases – 1. Septic thromboembolism with factor V Leiden mutation 2. Idiopathic pulmonary hypertension with acute pulmonary thromboembolism 3. Pulmonary thromboembolism due to protein S deficiency Early diagnosis of such rare diseases and prompt intervention led to successful outcome in all our cases.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr A Manimaran, Dr R Ramanan, Dr Monisha Sundararajan, Dr S Parthasarathy
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- DOI 10.9790/0853-1710100104.
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