Journal of Chest Surgery

The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (대한심장혈관흉부외과학회)
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Successful Management of Pulmonary and Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Embolism from Renal Cell Carcinoma

  • Shim, Hunbo (Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Wook Sung (Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Young-Wook (Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine) ;
  • Yang, Shin-Seok (Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Duk-Kyung (Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
  • Received : 2012.02.27
  • Accepted : 2012.03.07
  • Published : 2012.10.05
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Abstract

Pulmonary tumor embolism can be a cause of respiratory failure in patients with cancer even though it occurs rarely. We describe a 56-year-old man who underwent a pulmonary tumor embolectomy using cardiopulmonary bypass on beating heart combined with inferior vena cava embolectomy and right radical nephrectomy. Aggressive surgical treatment in this severe case is necessary not only to reduce the fatal outcome of pulmonary embolism in the short run, but also to improve the oncological prognosis in the long term.

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