Air embolism CT
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
CT scan of the chest and brain can help diagnose air embolism and its complications.
CT
- CT chest may show intra-cardial air[1][2]
- CT chest may show a filling defect in the lungs[3]
- CT of the brain may show areas of ischemia and/or entrapment of air.[4]
References
- ↑ Julio Lanfranco, Ivan Romero Legro, Amado X. Freire, Katherine Nearing & Sanjay Ratnakant (2017). "Pulmonary Air Embolism: An Infrequent Complication in the Radiology Suite". The American journal of case reports. 18: 80–84. PMID 28115731. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Kyong Shil Im, Joon Suk Woo & Jae Myeong Lee (2014). "Recurrence of fatal venous air embolism". Korean journal of anesthesiology. 67 (Suppl): S111–S112. doi:10.4097/kjae.2014.67.S.S111. PMID 25598879. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Julio Lanfranco, Ivan Romero Legro, Amado X. Freire, Katherine Nearing & Sanjay Ratnakant (2017). "Pulmonary Air Embolism: An Infrequent Complication in the Radiology Suite". The American journal of case reports. 18: 80–84. PMID 28115731. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Jochen Bauerle, Andreas Fischer, Tobias Hornig, Karl Egger, Tobias Wengenmayer & Jurgen Bardutzky (2013). "Therapeutic hypothermia in cerebral air embolism: a case report". SpringerPlus. 2: 411. doi:10.1186/2193-1801-2-411. PMID 24024097.