Massive main pulmonary artery embolism diagnosed with two-dimensional Doppler echocardiography.
This report describes the usefulness of echocardiography in the differential diagnosis of acute cardiovascular events. In a 66-year-old patient with known aortic stenosis and mitral valve prosthesis, who suddenly deteriorated with severe dyspnea, a thrombus within the pulmonary artery could be detected with 2-D echo. Pulsed-wave Doppler disclosed the resulting flow-velocity disturbances.
Gabrielsen
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Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, University of Ulm, Germany.
Schmidt
A
A
Eggeling
T
T
Hoeher
M
M
Kochs
M
M
Hombach
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V
D000368:Aged; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*