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Usefulness and growing need for intraoperative transthoracic echocardiography: a case series

BACKGROUND: Physician-performed transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is still seldom used during anesthesia. Despite its various advantages, there are only a few reports of intraoperative TTE. We report 3 cases in which intraoperative TTE was successfully used. CASE PRESENTATION: A 75-year-old woman...

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Autores principales: Hori, Kotaro, Matsuura, Tadashi, Mori, Takashi, Nishikawa, Kiyonobu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4460754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26059903
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-015-0066-0