Transesophageal Echocardiography-Guided Thrombus Extraction and Catheter-Directed Thrombolytic Therapy During Orthotropic Liver Transplantation

Ramon A Sanchez; Brian Kim; Jennifer Berumen; Ulrich Schmidt

doi:10.1053/j.jvca.2017.04.042

Transesophageal Echocardiography-Guided Thrombus Extraction and Catheter-Directed Thrombolytic Therapy During Orthotropic Liver Transplantation

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2017 Dec;31(6):2127-2130. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2017.04.042. Epub 2017 Apr 26.

Authors

Ramon A Sanchez¹, Brian Kim², Jennifer Berumen², Ulrich Schmidt²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA. Electronic address: rsanchez@ucsd.edu.
² Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

PMID: 28939324
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2017.04.042

No abstract available

Keywords: catheter-directed thrombolysis; intracardiac thrombus; liver transplantation; thrombectomy; thrombolysis; transesophageal echocardiography.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cardiac Catheterization / methods
Echocardiography, Transesophageal / methods*
Female
Heart Diseases / diagnostic imaging
Heart Diseases / surgery*
Humans
Liver Transplantation / adverse effects
Liver Transplantation / methods*
Middle Aged
Monitoring, Intraoperative / methods*
Thrombolytic Therapy / methods*
Thrombosis / diagnostic imaging
Thrombosis / surgery*