McConnell's sign in acute pulmonary embolism

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 982-985

  Lau, Gary ^a   Ther, Gabor ^a   Swanevelder, Justiaan ^b  

^a GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTERIOTOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; EMBOLECTOMY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; STERNOTOMY; SWELLING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876762701     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31828a4b38     Document Type: Article

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