Detection of right to left shunt by transesophageal echocardiography in a patient with postoperative hypoxemia

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 418-421

  Yeh, Yu Ling ^a,b   Liu, Chen Kun ^a   Chang, Wen Kuei ^a   Chan, Kwok Hon ^a   Li, Jihn Yih ^c   Tsai, Shen Kou ^c  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b SHIN KONG WU HO SU MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Hypoxemia; Intracardiac right to left shunt; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33645923695     PISSN: 09296646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-6646(09)60139-X     Document Type: Article

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