07 June 2023
: Case report 
A Patient with Class III Obesity and a Body Mass Index of 70.1 kg/m² Requiring Pulmonary Artery Catheterization to Confirm the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Hypertension
Management of emergency care
Hiroya Hagiwara1ABE, Masayuki Akatsuka
1ABDEF*, Kanako Takahashi1B, Asami Yoshinaka1B, Shuji Yamamoto1DE
DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.939383
Am J Case Rep 2023; 24:e939383
Figure 3. Clinical course of vital signs after intensive care unit admission. On day 2, a Swan-Ganz catheter (SGC) was inserted to evaluate the circulatory status. On day 4, the mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP) was increased to 60 mmHg while a sudden decrease of mean blood pressure (mBP) occurred and SpO2 was decreased to <80%. On day 9, the same event occurred despite the deep sedation. The patient’s condition was stable after day 10 and the patient was extubated on day 23.