J Cardiovasc Ultrasound.  2012 Sep;20(3):163-164. 10.4250/jcu.2012.20.3.163.

Cardiovascular Ultrasound in the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Intermediate-Risk Pulmonary Embolism

• Fabijanic
• Carevic V
• Batinic T
• Jurisic Z
• Bozic I

• KMID: 1808355
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2012.20.3.163

Abstract

No abstract available.

Keyword

Cardiac imaging; Echocardiography; Pulmonary embolism

MeSH Terms

Echocardiography
Pulmonary Embolism

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Transesophageal echocardiography (A and B) showed highly 76 mobile thrombus in the dilated right atrium, and duplex-Doppler scanning (C) revealed suboclusive thrombosis (*) of the left subclavian vein. RA: right atrium, RV: right ventricle, LA: left atrium, LV: left ventricle, SCV: superior caval vein, ICV: inferior caval vein, SV: subclavian vein.

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