Alteration of Surgical Management Following Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography in a Patient With Mobile Left Atrial Thrombi Embolized During Anesthesia

This report describes alteration of surgical management in a patient with a large free‐floating ball thrombus in the left atrium, which was embolized before sternotomy as demonstrated by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography. Due to new findings observed by intraoperative transesophageal e...

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Published in:Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2003-04, Vol.20 (3), p.291-292
Main Authors: Ha, Jong-Won, Chung, Namsik, Hong, Yong-Woo, Kwak, Young-Ran, Chang, Byung-Chul, Cho, Seung-Yun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anesthesia
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Embolectomy
embolism
Embolism - surgery
Female
Heart Atria
Heart Diseases - surgery
Humans
Intraoperative Care
Middle Aged
Thrombosis - surgery
thrombus
transesophageal echocardiography
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Summary:This report describes alteration of surgical management in a patient with a large free‐floating ball thrombus in the left atrium, which was embolized before sternotomy as demonstrated by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography. Due to new findings observed by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography, unnecessary sternotomy could be avoided. (ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, Volume 20, April 2003)
ISSN:0742-2822
1540-8175
DOI:10.1046/j.1540-8175.2003.03029.x