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Transpharyngeal echocardiographic detection of a left internal carotid artery stent
A Miller1, N C Nanda, O Mukhtar
1Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35249, USA.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|January 12, 2001
Abstract:
This case report describes a patient in whom a left internal carotid (LIC) artery stent was detected using a transpharyngeal approach during a transesophageal echocardiographic (TEE) study. Using pulsed-Doppler interrogation, flow through and beyond the stent was characterized and restenosis was ruled out.