Imminent pulmonary embolism: A fatal mobile right atrial thrombus

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-58

  Basarici, Ibrahim ^a   Yilmaz, Huseyin ^a   Demir, Ibrahim ^a   Yalcinkaya, Selim ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cardiac thrombus; Echocardiography; Malignancy; Mobile thrombus; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CA 125 ANTIGEN; HEPARIN;

AGED; ASCITES; BOLUS INJECTION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART FAILURE; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPEN HEART SURGERY; OVARY CARCINOMA; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33644849086     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 18758312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-005-7438-3     Document Type: Review

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