COLOR DOPPLER TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN DETECTION OF MASSIVE PULMONARY-EMBOLISM - IS PULMONARY ANGIOGRAPHY ALWAYS THE GOLD STANDARD

Authors
NESKOVIC AN POPOVIC AD BABIC R OTASEVIC P BOJIC M
Citation
An. Neskovic et al., COLOR DOPPLER TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN DETECTION OF MASSIVE PULMONARY-EMBOLISM - IS PULMONARY ANGIOGRAPHY ALWAYS THE GOLD STANDARD, Echocardiography, 13(6), 1996, pp. 631-633
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Echocardiography → ACNP
ISSN journal
07422822
Volume
13
Issue
6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
631 - 633
Database
ISI
SICI code
0742-2822(1996)13:6<631:CDTEID>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
In this article, the potential value of color Doppler in improving dia gnostic accuracy of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in patients with incomplete obstruction of Large pulmonary vessels is illustrated . We present an unusual case of massive pulmonary embolism that was un equivocally detected by color Doppler TEE both before and after pulmon ary angiography, which failed to demonstrate filling defects in. the p ulmonary artery.