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Massive Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Stroke

Author(s) -

Poobalan Naidoo,

Richard Hift

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

case reports in medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2

H-Index - 20

eISSN - 1687-9627

pISSN - 1687-9635

DOI - 10.1155/2011/398571

Subject(s) - medicine , streptokinase , pulmonary embolism , stroke (engine) , venous thrombosis , thrombosis , cardiomyopathy , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , cardiology , heart failure , myocardial infarction , mechanical engineering , family medicine , engineering

A 38-year-old HIV-positive female, recently started on antiretroviral therapy, presented in extremis. She had features suggestive of an HIV-associated cardiomyopathy complicated by the following problems: a four-day-old stroke, extensive deep venous thrombosis, and massive pulmonary embolism. She received intravenous streptokinase with rapid improvement, both haemodynamically and, unexpectedly, neurologically. Our case illustrates that a positive outcome is potentially possible where the two conditions coincide.

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