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Echocardiographic detection of pulmonary emboli-in-transit
P J Giannoccaro1, R A Sochowski, K J Ascah
1University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario.
The Canadian Journal of Cardiology
|July 1, 1991
Abstract:
Echocardiography can detect pulmonary emboli-in-transit as mobile masses within the right heart. In this case report, a patient with biventricular failure had both transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiograms which revealed a thromboembolus entrapped within the right atrium. Surgery confirmed the echocardiographic findings.