作者: Nils Kucher
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-287-8_13
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摘要: Approximately one-third of the patients with acute massive pulmonary embolism (PE) and cardiogenic shock are not eligible for potentially life-saving systemic fibrinolysis because major contraindications. Moreover, large-scale registries have shown that surgical embolectomy is carried out in only 1% PE shock. Therefore, catheter-based thrombectomy or thrombus aspiration, as described present chapter, a promising alternative if contraindications to present, readily available feasible.