Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism by transoesophageal echocardiography.
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.
Richaud
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Department of Cardiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France.
Drobinski
G
G
Montalescot
G
G
Salloum
J
J
Bizec
J L
JL
Isnard
R
R
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*