Caught in the act: Impending paradoxical embolism

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 342-343

  Fabricius, Alex M ^a   Krüger, Martin ^a   Hanke, Michaela ^a   Mohr, Friedrich W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPARIN; RECOMBINANT ANTITHROMBIN III;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSOLUTION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FORAMEN OVALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART SURGERY; HEPARINIZATION; HIP SURGERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; LEG SWELLING; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PRESSURE; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PULMONARY ARTERY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 0036978421     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230201000415     Document Type: Article

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