| Literature DB >> 25590010 |
Jiang-Ping Wu1, Dan-Yan Gu1, Sheng Wang1, Zhen-Jun Zhang1, Jian-Cang Zhou1, Rui-Feng Zhang1.
Abstract
We reported the case of a 70-year-old man who was admitted to neurologic wards for recurrent syncope for 3 years. Unfortunately, just 2 hours after his admission, he suddenly collapsed and failed to return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) after a 100-minute standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Fortunately, he was timely suspected to have pulmonary embolism (PE) based on his sedentary lifestyle, elevated D-dimer and markedly enlarged right ventricle chamber on bedside echocardiography. After a rescue thrombolytic alteplase therapy, he was successfully resuscitated and good neurological recovery was achieved.Entities:
Keywords: Cardiac arrest; pulmonary embolism (PE); thrombolysis
Year: 2014 PMID: 25590010 PMCID: PMC4283306 DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.12.23
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Thorac Dis ISSN: 2072-1439 Impact factor: 2.895