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Diagnostic challenges with transesophageal echocardiography for intraoperative iatrogenic aortic dissection: Role of epiaortic ultrasound

Iatrogenic aortic dissection is a rare and serious complication of cardiac surgery with an incidence between 0.12% and 0.16%. Dissections involving an intimal flap can be detected using trans-esophageal echocardiography (TEE) with a sensitivity of 94%–100% and specificity of 77%–100%. Rarely, dissec...

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Autores principales: Rhoades, Daniel, Subramani, Sudhakar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8081137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33938839
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aca.ACA_4_19