[Clinical usefulenss of a saggital ultrasonography study of the left atrium: report of a case].
Multiplane transesophageal echocardiography allows a more complete image of the complex anatomy of the left atrial appendage. In this study we describe a clinical case in which a "sagittal echocardiographic section" revealed a thrombus not imaged with the usual horizontal and longitudinal echocardiographic planes.
Bragato
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Unità Operativa di Ecocardiografia, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Via Manzoni, 56 20089 Rozzano.
La Marchesina
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Grimaldi
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Faletra
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D000368:Aged; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*