although it is not proper to separate surgical and medical treatment of thromboembolism , the authors , on the ground of their experience on 5 patients affected by massive pulmonary embolism , in 3 of whom was performed a successful embolectomy , think that heparin anticoagulation treatment is at any rate to apply for treating pulmonary embolism , but in patients in whom the shock is unresponsive to vasopressors or in whom anticoagulation therapy is controindicated , the surgical removal of pulmonary emboly , with the support of a pump oxygenator , is the treatment of choice for the acute massive pulmonary thromboembolism .
C0040038
thromboembolism
C0019134
heparin