Use of transesophageal echocardiography in the evaluation and surgical treatment of a patient with an aneurysmal interatrial septum and an intracardiac thrombus traversing a patent foramen ovale

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 769-770

  Burch, Thomas M ^a   Davidson, Mark F ^a   Pereira, Sara J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 39749183506     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318162c519     Document Type: Article

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