Diagnostic value of transoesophageal echocardiography in suspected haemodynamically significant pulmonary embolism

Heart

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 628-634

  Pruszczyk, P ^a   Kuch Wocial, A ^a   Szulc, M ^a   Torbicki, A ^b   Pacho, R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Pulmonary embolism; Transoesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034763349     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heart.85.6.628     Document Type: Article

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