Protein C deficiency as a cause of pulmonary embolism in the perioperative period
| Autor: | Timothy L. Sternberg, J. Lazarchick, M. K. Bailey, N. H. Brahen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.drug_class business.industry Anticoagulant Respiratory disease Protein C Deficiency Perioperative medicine.disease Pulmonary embolism Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Protein C deficiency Internal medicine Anesthesia Surgical Procedures Operative medicine Cardiology Coagulopathy Humans Female Complication business Child Pulmonary Embolism Protein C medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Anesthesiology. 74(2) |
| ISSN: | 0003-3022 |
| Popis: | Pulmonary embolism in the perioperative period is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Deficiency of protein C, a vitamin K-dependent anticoagulant that inhibits activated factors V and VIII, is a rare cause of thromboembolic phenomena. We report a case of perioperative pulmonary embolism secondary to undiagnosed protein C deficiency and resulting in nonresuscitable cardiac arrest in a pediatric patient |
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