Echocardiographic detection of pulmonary emboli-in-transit

Can J Cardiol. 1991 Jul-Aug;7(6):246-8.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Echocardiography*
  • Female
  • Heart Atria / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Pulmonary Embolism / diagnostic imaging*
  • Pulmonary Embolism / surgery