Transesophageal echocardiography-guided aortic thrombectomy in a patient with a mobile thoracic aortic thrombus

Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 176-178

  Krishnamoorthy, Vijay ^a   Bhatt, Kunal ^a   Nicolau, Ramona ^a   Borhani, Martin ^a   Schwartz, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic atheromatous disease; Coagulation; Intraoperative assessment; Monitoring; Platelet function; Thoracic surgery; Thrombosis; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA; THROMBECTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84858184510     PISSN: 10892532     EISSN: 19405596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1089253211415123     Document Type: Article

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