Late presentation of esophageal injury after transesophageal echocardiography

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-44

  MacGregor, Drew A ^a   Zvara, David A ^a   Treadway Jr , R Morris ^a   Ibdah, Jamal A ^a   Maloney, James D ^a   Kon, Neal D ^a   Riley, Robert D ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; APROTININ; FENTANYL; HEMOGLOBIN; HEPARIN; INSULIN; LANSOPRAZOLE; MIDAZOLAM; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; PANCURONIUM; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

AGED; ANEMIA; AORTA PROSTHESIS; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROSTOMY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 3042615686     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000120085.40108.24     Document Type: Article

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