Abstract
A 52-year-old woman with simultaneous bilateral retinal artery occlusions and normal trans-thoracic echocardiography was found to have a mitral valve lesion on trans-esophageal echocardiography. Bilateral retinal artery occlusions suggest a source of emboli at the level of the heart or aortic arch. Such cases should be evaluated not merely by trans-thoracic echocardiography, but by trans-esophageal echocardiography, which better visualizes the aortic arch and left heart cavities.
Publication types
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Case Reports
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Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
MeSH terms
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Calcinosis / complications*
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Calcinosis / diagnostic imaging
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Calcinosis / surgery
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Echocardiography, Transesophageal*
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Female
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Fluorescein Angiography
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Functional Laterality
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Heart Valve Diseases / complications*
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Heart Valve Diseases / diagnostic imaging
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Heart Valve Diseases / surgery
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Humans
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Middle Aged
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Mitral Valve / diagnostic imaging
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Mitral Valve / pathology*
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Mitral Valve / surgery
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Retinal Artery Occlusion / diagnosis
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Retinal Artery Occlusion / etiology*