1. Dehydration as a Rare Cause of Pulmonary Artery Thrombosis in a 2-Week-Old Term Neonate
- Author
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Gili Kenet, David Mishaly, Tal Tirosh-Wagner, Gideon Paret, Gal Kimhi, and Marina Rubinshtein
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medicine.medical_specialty ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,Pulmonary arterial thrombosis ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Population ,Pulmonary artery thrombosis ,Embolectomy ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Term neonates ,medicine.disease ,Pulmonary hypertension ,Surgery ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,030225 pediatrics ,Internal medicine ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,medicine ,Cardiology ,Differential diagnosis ,Thrombus ,education ,business - Abstract
Pulmonary arterial thrombosis is an extremely rare occurrence in the neonatal population. We describe a 2-week-old female neonate who presented in critical condition with severe cyanosis and dehydration and was found to have a large thrombus in the main branches of the pulmonary arteries. She was successfully treated with surgical embolectomy. Pulmonary arterial thrombosis should always be considered in the differential diagnosis of a dehydrated neonate presenting with severe cyanosis and evidence of pulmonary hypertension.
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- 2017