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Pulmonary artery catheter entrapment after mitral valve surgery and the use of transesophageal echocardiography to accurately determine the site of entrapment

The prevalence of pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) entrapment in open-heart surgery is scarce with a prevalence rate of 0.065%. Challenges in managing such cases lie particularly in choosing the modalities (chest roentgenogram, fluoroscopy, and transesophageal echocardiography) to accurately identify...

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Autores principales: Lip, Henry Tan Chor, Huei, Tan Jih, Hamid, Syed Rasul Bin G. Syed, Vendargon, Simon Jerome
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6044158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30100848
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sja.SJA_674_17