Pulmonary artery compression by a saphenous vein graft aneurysm and contrast echocardiography using an agitated mixture of ten percent air, ten percent blood, and ten percent saline.
This case illustrates the use of intravenous injection of an agitated mixture of 10% air, 10% blood, and 80% saline during intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography in a patient with a saphenous vein graft aneurysm compressing the main pulmonary artery.
Jeon
Doo-Soo
DS
Division of Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA.
Miyamoto
Takashi
T
Fontana
Gregory
G
Friedman
Arnold
A
Siegel
Robert J
RJ
D000368:Aged; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003287:Contrast Media; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D011859:Radiography; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation*
D003287:Contrast Media