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A novel view for visualizing a left pulmonary artery thromboembolus with intraoperative transesophageal
Martina Nowak1, Stanton K Shernan, Holger K Eltzschig
1Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Abstract:
Visualization of thromboembolic material in the pulmonary artery is often difficult on transesophageal echocardiography, especially in the left pulmonary artery, because of the position of the left main bronchus. We present a case in which thromboembolic material within the midleft pulmonary artery was incidentally diagnosed using additional, modified transesophageal echocardiography views, in a patient undergoing mitral valve repair.

