title: [Transesophageal echocardiography. Experience at the Pulido Valente Hospital (the first 50 cases)].
abstract: The use of echocardiography is increasingly important in the evaluation of cardiac patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  The results of the First fifty examinations of the Department of cardiology (Hospital de Pulido Valente). We evaluate the contribution of the T-E-E on the therapeutic decisions of these patients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The clinical condition for which T-E-E were particularly appropriate were: embolism detection, evaluation of Mitral valvular regurgitation and prosthetic function, detection of vegetations in patients with suspicion of bacterial endocarditis, detection of intracardiac shunts. The examines were conclusive in 88% of the patients.
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Cardiologia, Hospital Pulido Valente, HPV.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Correia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D004947:Esophagus; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011174:Portugal