Floating aortic thrombus in systemic aspergillosis and detection by transesophageal echocardiography

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2355-2358

  Grothues, Frank ^a   Welte, Tobias ^a   Grote, Hans J ^a   Roessner, Albert ^a   Klein, Helmut U ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adult; Aorta; Aortic diseases; Aspergillosis; Critical care; Critical illness; Echocardiography; Immunocompromised host; Respiratory distress syndrome; Thoracic; Thrombus; Transesophageal

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; CASE REPORT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 0036798854     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200210000-00027     Document Type: Article

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