title: Visualization of acute pulmonary emboli by transesophageal echocardiography.
abstract: This report describes a patient who became hypoxic and hypotensive while awaiting cardiac surgery. An urgent transesophageal echocardiogram in the operating room showed a mass at the junction of the main and right pulmonary arteries consistent with thrombus. The thrombus was removed surgically, and the patient then had a successful aortic valve replacement. Transesophageal echocardiography is therefore useful in the evaluation of the critically ill patient.
authors: Department of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44106.
authors: A L
authors: AL
authors: Klein
authors: W C
authors: WC
authors: Stewart
authors: D M
authors: DM
authors: Cosgrove
authors: M J
authors: MJ
authors: Mick
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Salcedo
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*