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Case Reports
. 1999 May;16(5):342-5.
doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2346.1999.00479.x.

Paradoxical air embolism during orthoptic liver transplantation: diagnosis by transoesophageal echocardiography

G Thiéry  1 , F Le Corre, P Kirstetter, A Sauvanet, J Belghiti, J Marty
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Paradoxical air embolism during orthoptic liver transplantation: diagnosis by transoesophageal echocardiography

G Thiéry et al. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 1999 May.

Abstract

We describe a case of paradoxical air embolism during orthotopic liver transplantation, early diagnosis, using intra-operative transoesophageal echocardiography after a circulatory failure, allowed early management by hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

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