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A pulmonary thrombectomy is an emergency surgical procedure used to remove blood clots from the pulmonary arteries. Mechanical thrombectomies can be surgical (surgical thrombectomy) or percutaneous (percutaneous thrombectomy). [1] Surgical thrombectomies were once popular but were abandoned because of poor long-term outcomes.
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Rodbard and Wagner connected the right atrial appendage to the right pulmonary artery in an early report on this surgical technique. [16] Carlon et al reported the first superior cavo-pulmonary anastomosis between the right pulmonary artery and azygos vein, demonstrated an increase in pulmonary blood flow in dogs. [ 17 ]
Clot visualization is achieved through dissection of the pulmonary arteries which is technically challenging. If possible the clot is removed in a single piece to avoid the formation of mobile emboli. In order to achieve this CPB is periodically stopped, resulting in a complete cessation of blood circulation.
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Mechanical thrombectomy, or simply thrombectomy, is the removal of a blood clot (thrombus) from a blood vessel, often and especially endovascularly as an interventional radiology procedure called endovascular thrombectomy (EVT).
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The purpose of the procedure is to utilize the right ventricle as the main chamber pumping blood to the body and lungs. A connection between left and right atria (collecting chambers of the heart) is established via atrial septectomy, allowing blood arriving from the lungs to travel to the right ventricle.