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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2006

G. Thiéry ,
F. Le Corre ,
P. Kirstetter ,
A. Sauvanet ,
J. Belghiti  and
J. Marty
G. Thiéry
Affiliation:
Service d'Anesthésie-Réanimation, Hôpital Beaujon, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92118 Clichy, France
F. Le Corre
Affiliation:
Service d'Anesthésie-Réanimation, Hôpital Beaujon, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92118 Clichy, France
P. Kirstetter
Affiliation:
Service d'Anesthésie-Réanimation, Hôpital Beaujon, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92118 Clichy, France
A. Sauvanet
Affiliation:
Service de Chirurgie digestive, Hôpital Beaujon, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92118 Clichy, France
J. Belghiti
Affiliation:
Service de Chirurgie digestive, Hôpital Beaujon, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92118 Clichy, France
J. Marty
Affiliation:
Service d'Anesthésie-Réanimation, Hôpital Beaujon, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92118 Clichy, France
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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.

Keywords

liver transplantationair embolismpatent foramen ovaleneurological complicationtransoesophageal echocardiography
Type
Case Report
Information
European Journal of Anaesthesiology , Volume 16 , Issue 5 , May 1999 , pp. 342 - 345
Copyright
1999 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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