A Forgotten Guidewire Causing Intracardiac Multiple Thrombi With Paradoxical and Pulmonary Embolism

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 751.e15-751.e16

  Gulel, Okan ^a   Soylu, Korhan ^a   Yuksel, Serkan ^a   Keceligil, Hasan Tahsin ^a   Akcay, Murat ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPTOME; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR GUIDE WIRE;

EID: 84878126274     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2012.12.010     Document Type: Article

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