TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN THE EVALUATION OF A TRANSMEDIASTINAL GUNSHOT WOUND - CASE-REPORT

Authors
MCINTYRE RC MOORE EE READ RR WIEBE RL GROVER FL
Citation
Rc. Mcintyre et al., TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN THE EVALUATION OF A TRANSMEDIASTINAL GUNSHOT WOUND - CASE-REPORT, The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care, 36(1), 1994, pp. 125-127
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care → ACNP
Volume
36
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
125 - 127
Database
ISI
SICI code
Abstract
Transesophageal echocardiography is a safe, minimally invasive imaging modality that may be useful in the evaluation of transmediastinal gun shot wounds. In this report, we describe a hemodynamically stable pati ent who sustained a gunshot wound to the ascending aorta. Routine diag nostic evaluation, including aortography, failed to confirm the suspec ted diagnosis. Transesophageal echocardiography definitively detailed the injury to the aorta enabling definitive surgical repair.