The diagnosis of a pulmonary artery thrombus by transesophageal echocardiography.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
We describe a patient with an acute inferior wall myocardial infarction who underwent percutaneous coronary angioplasty. He subsequently had a cardiac arrest and developed progressive severe hypoxia. Although findings from pulmonary angiography were nondiagnostic, transesophageal echocardiography demonstrated a nonocclusive, right pulmonary artery thrombus. Therapy was changed, and the patient recovered. Transesophageal echocardiography was also used to monitor anticoagulation therapy.
Medical subject headings
- Echocardiography
- Pulmonary Embolism