Identification of a retained intravascular wire by three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 463-464

  Schwarz, Karl Q ^a,b   Tokarz, Stephen R ^c   Aktas, Mehmet K ^c   Kroening, Daniel ^c   Sawyer, Thomas J ^c   Daubert, James P ^c   Huang, David T ^c  

^a STRONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Retained wire; Three dimensional; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFIBRILLATOR; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMPLANT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY;

EID: 63849156395     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00817.x     Document Type: Article

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