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Diagnosis of fulminant pulmonary embolism by transthoracic echocardiography
E A Tovar1, A Borsari, C T Kunelis
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Jude Medical Center, Fullerton, California 92835, USA.
Texas Heart Institute Journal
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
When pulmonary embolism is severe enough to produce acute cor pulmonale, transthoracic 2-dimensional echocardiography can promptly yield findings highly suggestive of this condition while ruling out competing diagnoses. We present a case diagnosed by transthoracic echocardiography and successfully treated despite a prolonged refractory cardiac arrest.