Hepatic embolization due to hepatic rupture, cardiopulmonary post-reanimation in acute myocardial infarction

Abstract

A 37-year-old male patient, who after performing cardiac reanimation maneuvers, was diagnosed with an acute myocardial infarction and two coronary stents were placed percutaneously. The patient’s condition deteriorated 36 hours after surgery, and when a CT scan was performed, a subcapsular hepatic hematoma was observed. He was submitted to embolization one of the hepatic artery brunch and subsequent drainage of 2000 ml of blood by means of a minilaparotomy. The patient presented progressive improvement after the interventions.