Affiliation:
1. A. N. Bakulev National Medical Reseach Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, Ministry of Health of Russia
Abstract
Cement embolism of the right chambers of the heart after vertebral surgery is an extremely rare complication and occurs in 4 % of cases. The strategies for choosing the treatment of this complication are open-heart surgery under conditions of cardiopulmonary bypass, conservative treatment, or endovascular support. In the case of a fatal complication of embolism, such as perforation of the heart with the development of tamponade or life-threatening arrhythmias, the patient is shown an open operation with infrared. According to the literature, only 14 such operations are described, performed to save the patient’s life. We performed a successful operation of embolectomy from the right heart chambers in a 69‑year-old patient who had previously undergone vertebroplasty of the thoracic vertebrae.
Publisher
Publishing House ABV Press
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