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Syncope after a long-haul flight revealing multiple embolic events: the management strategy dilemma

Published:2022-11-07 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1195-1982
Container-title:Journal of Travel Medicine
language:en
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Author:

Raye Eugénie¹,Martineau Laurence¹,Adnet Frédéric²,Petrovic Tomislav²,Lapostolle Frédéric²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Robert Ballanger, Boulevard Robert Ballanger SMUR, Urgences, , 93600 Aulnay-sous-Bois, France

2. Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Inserm U942, Hôpital Avicenne SAMU 93 - UF Recherche-Enseignement-Qualité, , 125, rue de Stalingrad, 93009 Bobigny, France

Abstract

Air travel-related pulmonary embolism is rarely associated with other embolic complications, such as stroke, ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome and other systemic events we presented in our case report. In such a situation, physicians will face several dilemmas. We propose strategic avenues to answer this.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://academic.oup.com/jtm/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/jtm/taac118/47108262/taac118.pdf

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