title: Transesophageal echocardiographic identification of thrombus producing obstruction of left pulmonary artery descending lobar branches and bronchial artery dilatation.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Disiease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35249, USA.
authors.forename: Seung-Wan
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Rajasekhar
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nekkanti
authors.forename: Navin C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Nanda
authors.forename: Himanshu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gupta
mesh_terms: 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