title: Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism by transoesophageal echocardiography.
abstract: A 68-year-old woman was admitted for major dyspnoea. A transoesophageal echocardiogram was performed after the occurrence of acute circulatory shock. During the examination, the patient was under mechanical ventilation. We found a thrombus that had almost occluded the right pulmonary artery and which was later confirmed by selective angiography. Despite treatment, the patient died 2 days later; autopsy confirmed the thrombus in the right pulmonary artery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Richaud
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Drobinski
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Montalescot
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Salloum
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Bizec
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Isnard
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*