Koster Andreas, Meyer-Jark Ties, Schirmer Uwe, Sandica Eugene
From the Institute of Anesthesiology and Department for Surgery of Congenital Heart Disease, Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
A A Case Rep. 2014 Apr 15;2(8):89-91. doi: 10.1097/ACC.0b013e3182a070e9.
Prothrombin complex concentrates are increasingly used during complex cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. Reports describing massive thromboembolism after administration of prothrombin complex concentrates are rare. We report a case of a patient developing massive intracardiac and pulmonary artery thrombus formations during infusion of a moderate dose of prothrombin complex concentrate after separation from cardiopulmonary bypass for complex open heart surgery.