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01-10-2018 | Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine
Unilateral pulmonary venous occlusion caused by a localized pericardial clot
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 10/2018
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On postoperative day 1 after bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass grafting, a 53-year-old man suffered cardiac arrest requiring chest compressions. This was followed by an increase in oxygen requirement. Chest X-ray revealed early signs of unilateral pulmonary edema (Fig. 1a).
Fig. 1
a Chest X-ray showing increased opacification on the left side. Pulse-wave Doppler interrogation of left upper pulmonary venous inflow b prior to and c after pericardial clot evacuation
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