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Acute Myocardial Infarction During Transesophageal Echocardiography
Abdallah Al Moussarih1, Herve Douard, Stephane Lafitte
1Hôpital Cardiologique, 33600 Avenue de Magellan, Pessac, France.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|February 15, 2001
Abstract:
We describe the occurrence of acute myocardial infarction during transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in a patient with atrial fibrillation and underestimated angina. Such a case has not been previously reported in the literature. This case illustrates one of the possible complications of TEE, leading us to suggest systematic sedation in patients with angina in whom TEE is envisaged.