title: Impending paradoxic embolism in acute pulmonary embolism: diagnosis by transesophageal echocardiography and treatment by emergent surgery.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA 01604.
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Mathew
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Ramsaran
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Aragam
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004617:Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D004630:Emergencies; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000150:complications*