Transesophageal echocardiographic identification of thrombus producing obstruction of left pulmonary artery descending lobar branches and bronchial artery dilatation.
We report an elderly patient in whom a thrombus in the distal left pulmonary artery was shown by transesophageal echocardiography to extend and produce obstruction of the descending lobar branches as well as dilatation of the left bronchial artery.
Kang
Seung-Wan
SW
Division of Cardiovascular Disiease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35249, USA.
Nekkanti
Rajasekhar
R
Nanda
Navin C
NC
Gupta
Himanshu
H
D000368:Aged; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001981:Bronchial Arteries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color / Q000379:methods; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012720:Severity of Illness Index