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Bedside Echocardiography for Undifferentiated Hypotension: Diagnosis of a Right Heart Thrombus

A free-floating right heart thrombus is often a harbinger of a massive pulmonary embolism and must be diagnosed and treated rapidly in order to avoid significant adverse sequelae. We present the case of an 84-year-old female who presented with two days of dyspnea and was hypotensive on arrival. Beds...

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Autores principales: Kenny, James F., Zhong, Xun, Brown, Cara, Das, Devjani, Royall, Brock, Kapoor, Monica
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4307712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25671037
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2014.12.23262