Massive pulmonary embolism and paradoxical migration during surgical embolectomy: Role of transesophageal echocardiogram

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Chughtai, Haroon ^a   Basora, Jose ^a   Khan, Kamrul ^a   Matta, Jyoti ^a  

^a JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DYSPNEA; EMBOLECTOMY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LEG ISCHEMIA; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLECTOMY; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REOPERATION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 74949143256     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20653     Document Type: Article

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