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Key Clinical Message Abnormal traffic between the left atrium (LA) and inferior vena cava (IVC) in the database is currently rare. Herein, we present a unique case of abnormal traffic between the LA and the IVC, which was diagnosed using transesophageal ...
Hui Xu, Dian‐Bo Cao, Xiao‐Dong Li
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ABSTRACT Intracardiac thrombus in the right heart has a great risk of embolizing to the pulmonary circulation leading to great morbidity and mortality. Removal of large thrombi incurs an increased risk of embolization, especially if the clot is more acute and not fully adherent.
Saloni K. Trivedi +3 more
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Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography During Surgery For Congenital Heart Defects [PDF]
Aim: Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography ( TEE) has been increasingly utilized du-ring repair of congenital cardiac defects. TEE plays a major role in confirmation of the preoperative diagnosis, residual defects, and the need to return the ...
Atilla Aral +6 more
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Feasibility and Accuracy of Two-and Three-Dimensional Transthoracic Echocardiography in Patients with Right Atrial Dilatation Using the Right Parasternal Approach [PDF]
Background: Echocardiography increasingly used for diagnosis of right atrial dilatation. Three dimensional is superior than two dimensional echocardiography.
Khaled Najeeb +2 more
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ABSTRACT Septic pulmonary embolism in adults is usually associated with right‐sided endocarditis. We report a 27‐year‐old male with 14 days of fever, dyspnea, and hemoptysis. CT chest showed bilateral peripheral cavitating nodules consistent with septic pulmonary emboli.
Santiago Saenz‐Ancira +5 more
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Coronary artery fistula detected with transesophageal echocardiography: An unexpected cause of pulmonary hypertension and chest pain [PDF]
Coronary artery fistulae are congenital cardiac abnormalities characterized by an abnormal communication between a coronary artery and a cardiac chamber, systemic or pulmonary vessel.
Gurbuz, Ahmet S. +4 more
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Indications for transesophageal echocardiography
Transesophageal echocardiography provide a second window for the exploration of the heart, eliminating the limitations of transthoracic echocardiography.
Manuel Gerardo Amador Antuna +5 more
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Neisseria bacilliformis, a rare cause of culture‐negative infective endocarditis, led to multisystem embolization (spleen, kidney, brain, lung) in a 79‐year‐old woman. Plasma microbial cell‐free DNA testing enabled definitive diagnosis and successful targeted therapy.
Hareem Saleem +10 more
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ABSTRACT Pulmonary arterial hypertension may mask underlying atrial septal defects by reducing left‐to‐right shunt flow through elevated pulmonary vascular resistance and impaired right ventricular compliance. Targeted therapy may unmask latent defects, emphasizing early multimodality imaging and sustained clinical suspicion for congenital shunts when ...
Nwachukwu O. Nwachukwu +6 more
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Critical Care Transesophageal Echocardiography [PDF]
Critical care transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is useful in characterizing shock states encountered by intensivists when transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) gives insufficient information or when more detailed analysis of cardiac structures is ...
Mayo, P. H., Narasimhan, M., Koenig, S.
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