Three cases of acute pulmonary thromboembolism diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography

Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 973-977

  Kusaka, Yusuke ^a   Sawai, Toshiyuki ^a   Ito, Masayuki ^a   Oka, Masayuki ^a   Miyazaki, Shinichiro ^a   Tanaka, Motoshige ^a   Minami, Toshiaki ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute pulmonary thromboembolism; Anticoagulation therapy; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

EID: 49749142991     PISSN: 00214892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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