Alteration of surgical management following intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography in a patient with mobile left atrial thrombi embolized during anesthesia

Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 291-292

  Ha, Jong Won ^a   Chung, Namsik ^a   Hong, Yong Woo ^a   Kwak, Young Ran ^a   Chang, Byung Chul ^a   Cho, Seung Yun ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Embolism; Thrombus; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAINT JUDE HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; STERNOTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANESTHESIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLECTOMY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0037397596     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2003.03029.x     Document Type: Article

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