Emboli in transit: the missing link.
Since they were first described in 1990, there has been great interest in protruding atheromas in the aortic arch and descending thoracic aorta as an important source of stroke and other embolic phenomena. This report describes a patient with severe protruding aortic atheromas who died of documented embolic phenomena, in whom actual emboli in transit were seen for the first time during transesophageal echocardiography of the aorta.
Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York 10016, USA.
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Freedberg
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Tunick
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Kronzon
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004617:Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans