A 38-Year-Old Hispanic Woman with Paradoxical Embolism and Libman-Sacks Endocarditis Involving the Tricuspid Valve

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1316.e5-1316.e7

  Zurick III, Andrew O ^a   Yang, Eric H ^a   Chang, Patricia P ^a   Hinderliter, Alan L ^a   Willis IV, Park W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIBMAN SACKS ENDOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

EID: 35648947786     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2007.03.013     Document Type: Article

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