Left Ventricular Mobile Thrombus Associated with Ventricular Assist Device - Diagnosis by Transesophageal Echocardiography

Circulation Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 383-384

  Miyake, Yumiko ^a   Sugioka, Kenichi ^a   Bussey, Christine D ^a   Di Tullio, Marco ^a   Homma, Shunichi ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Left ventricular assist device (LVAD); Thrombus; Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEFT VENTRICLE THROMBUS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 1842631867     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.68.383     Document Type: Article

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