Multiple pulmonary thromboembolism diagnosed by two-dimensional echocardiography.
A 55-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of progressive dyspnea, orthopnea and hemoptysis. Two-dimensional echocardiography multiple echo-dense images 1-4 mm in diameter were consistently seen crossing the tricuspid valve. A hypothesis of multiple pulmonary thromboembolism was raised. Clinical and postmortem evidence were later obtained to confirm this diagnosis.
D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010690:Phlebography; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013924:Thrombophlebitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging