Transesophageal echocardiography failed to detect a patent foramen ovale resulting in cardiac arrest during endoscopic saphenous vein harvesting in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery.
Okumura
Yoshio
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Batchelder
Rodney A
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D000368:Aged; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005260:Female; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000209:etiology*; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation