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Esophageal perforation by echoprobe during cardiac surgery: treatment by endoscopic stenting
Albert M Nana1, Constantin Stefanidis, Jean-Pierre Chami
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Erasme Hospital, University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 26, 2003
Abstract:
The usefulness and safety of transesophageal echocardiography during cardiac surgery have been well described in the literature. However, rare complications of this procedure can occur and should be familiar to surgeons and anesthesiologists. A case of esophageal perforation by echoprobe during coronary artery bypass grafting treated successfully by endoscopic stenting is reported.