Pulmonary embolectomy: results and technique
Embolectomía pulmonar: técnica y resultados
Resumen:
Trendelenburg's operation, was practised only in exceptional cases of massive pulmonary embolism, although it had been performed for the first time in 1924. With the advent of extracorporeal circulation, utilizing simple machines which could be used in the patients' beds, this operation was once more incorporated to the surgical weapons employed in urgency cases. Modern methods of clinical study make it possible to act on the basis of correct diagnosis. Contemporary surgeons, with a better knowledge of the disease and better equipment and instruments, may perform this operation with greater possibility of success than thirty years ago, even without the aid of extracorporeal circulation.Obviously the anatomical conception of this operation outstripped complementary facilities of its time.
La operac10n de Trendelenburg, aunque realizada por primera vez en 1924, era practicada excepcionalmente en embolias pulmonares graves. El advenimiento de la circulación extracorpórea con máquinas sencillas aplicables en la cama del enfermo ha reincorporado esta operación al arsenal quirúrgico de urgencia. Los modernos métodos de estudio clínico permiten actuar con seguridad en el diagnóstico. Conocida mejor la enfermedad y con mejores equipos e instrumentos, los cirujanos contemporáneos pueden realizar la operación hasta sin asistencia circulatoria con mayores posibilidades que hace 40 años. Evidentemente la concepción anatómica de esta intervención se había adelantado alos medios auxiliares de la época.
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embolectomía pulmonar técnica quirúrgica pulmonary embolectomy surgical technique |
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Sociedad de Cirugía del Uruguay | |
Revista Cirugía del Uruguay | |
https://revista.scu.org.uy/index.php/cir_urug/article/view/2154 | |
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Sumario: | Trendelenburg's operation, was practised only in exceptional cases of massive pulmonary embolism, although it had been performed for the first time in 1924. With the advent of extracorporeal circulation, utilizing simple machines which could be used in the patients' beds, this operation was once more incorporated to the surgical weapons employed in urgency cases. Modern methods of clinical study make it possible to act on the basis of correct diagnosis. Contemporary surgeons, with a better knowledge of the disease and better equipment and instruments, may perform this operation with greater possibility of success than thirty years ago, even without the aid of extracorporeal circulation.Obviously the anatomical conception of this operation outstripped complementary facilities of its time. |
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