title: Echocardiographic detection of pulmonary emboli-in-transit.
abstract: Echocardiography can detect pulmonary emboli-in-transit as mobile masses within the right heart. In this case report, a patient with biventricular failure had both transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiograms which revealed a thromboembolus entrapped within the right atrium. Surgery confirmed the echocardiographic findings.
authors.affiliation: University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Giannoccaro
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Sochowski
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Ascah
mesh_terms: D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery