Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography detects a sheared catheter wire and alters surgical approach in a Jehovah's Witness patient undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2004 Dec;18(6):765-6. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2004.08.017.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Angina Pectoris / etiology
  • Cardiac Catheterization / adverse effects*
  • Cardiac Catheterization / instrumentation
  • Cardiac Catheterization / methods
  • Coronary Artery Bypass / methods*
  • Coronary Restenosis / surgery
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal / methods*
  • Foreign Bodies / diagnosis*
  • Foreign Bodies / surgery
  • Graft Occlusion, Vascular / surgery
  • Heart Atria / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Atria / surgery
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Ventricles / surgery
  • Humans
  • Jehovah's Witnesses*
  • Male
  • Monitoring, Intraoperative / methods*
  • Radiography
  • Reoperation / methods
  • Sensitivity and Specificity