Recognizing blind spots on echocardiography: Incremental benefit of cardiac CT in investigating the source of systemic embolism

Transesophageal echocardiography is the gold-standard for evaluating potential central sources of thromboembolism. Despite its routine use and excellent safety profile, limitations exist in the ability to effectively assess the aortic arch and proximal descending aorta with this imaging modality. We...

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Autores principales: Zellmer, Lucas, Punjabi, Gopal, Shroff, Gautam R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10172622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37179803
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2023.04.002
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description Transesophageal echocardiography is the gold-standard for evaluating potential central sources of thromboembolism. Despite its routine use and excellent safety profile, limitations exist in the ability to effectively assess the aortic arch and proximal descending aorta with this imaging modality. We herein present a case of a 59 year-old patient presenting with renal and splenic infarcts, without obvious cardioembolic source on echocardiography, who was found to have a large, mobile aortic thrombus on gated cardiac computed tomography.
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spelling pubmed-101726222023-05-12 Recognizing blind spots on echocardiography: Incremental benefit of cardiac CT in investigating the source of systemic embolism Zellmer, Lucas Punjabi, Gopal Shroff, Gautam R. Radiol Case Rep Case Report Transesophageal echocardiography is the gold-standard for evaluating potential central sources of thromboembolism. Despite its routine use and excellent safety profile, limitations exist in the ability to effectively assess the aortic arch and proximal descending aorta with this imaging modality. We herein present a case of a 59 year-old patient presenting with renal and splenic infarcts, without obvious cardioembolic source on echocardiography, who was found to have a large, mobile aortic thrombus on gated cardiac computed tomography. Elsevier 2023-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10172622/ /pubmed/37179803 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2023.04.002 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_fullStr Recognizing blind spots on echocardiography: Incremental benefit of cardiac CT in investigating the source of systemic embolism
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title_short Recognizing blind spots on echocardiography: Incremental benefit of cardiac CT in investigating the source of systemic embolism
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2023.04.002
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