Sclerotherapy embolism: a novel etiology for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary disease
Çağatay Çetinkaya, Altuğ Sağır, Ayşen Terzi, Nezih Onur Ermerak, Şehnaz Olgun Yıldızeli, Bülent Mutlu, Bedrettin Yıldızeli · 2025
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Description
Çağatay Çetinkaya and co-authors report an unusual cause of lasting lung artery blockage, in a 2025 case series. The disease, chronic thromboembolic pulmonary disease, usually follows blood clots that fail to clear. In four patients, though, surgery found foreign material in the lung arteries instead of clot.
All four had earlier had sclerotherapy, a treatment that injects a substance to close varicose veins. The team found them in a database of 1,105 patients who had artery-clearing surgery between 2011 and 2025. Lab checks on the removed tissue confirmed the foreign material. The cases warn that vein injections can, rarely, send material to the lungs. Doctors meeting unexplained lung blockage may now add past vein treatment to their questions.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Çağatay Çetinkaya, Altuğ Sağır, Ayşen Terzi, Nezih Onur Ermerak, Şehnaz Olgun Yıldızeli, Bülent Mutlu, Bedrettin Yıldızeli |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |