Transesophageal Echocardiography Guidance for Robot-assisted Level III Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombectomy: A Novel Approach to Intraoperative Care

Michael Essandoh; Jonathan Tang; Grace Essandoh; Manoj H Iyer; Joseph Kuhn; Keith Opat; Victor L Mandoff; Geoffrey N Box

doi:10.1053/j.jvca.2018.05.017

Transesophageal Echocardiography Guidance for Robot-assisted Level III Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombectomy: A Novel Approach to Intraoperative Care

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2018 Dec;32(6):2623-2627. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2018.05.017. Epub 2018 Jun 13.

Authors

Michael Essandoh¹, Jonathan Tang², Grace Essandoh³, Manoj H Iyer², Joseph Kuhn², Keith Opat², Victor L Mandoff⁴, Geoffrey N Box⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Anesthesiology, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Healthnet Airport Medical Center, Accra, Ghana.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR.
⁵ Department of Urology, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

PMID: 29908891
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2018.05.017

No abstract available

Keywords: inferior vena cava; level III tumor thrombus; pulmonary embolism; renal cell carcinoma; robot-assisted radical nephrectomy with inferior vena cava tumor thrombectomy; transesophageal echocardiography.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Echocardiography, Transesophageal / methods*
Humans
Intraoperative Care / methods
Male
Middle Aged
Monitoring, Intraoperative / methods*
Robotic Surgical Procedures / methods*
Thrombectomy / methods*
Vascular Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Vascular Neoplasms / surgery
Vena Cava, Inferior / diagnostic imaging*
Vena Cava, Inferior / surgery