The importance of transesophageal echocardiography evaluation in a patient with acute limb ischaemia

This a case of a patient with acute limb ischaemia in whom thorough transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) evaluation depicted a patent foramen ovale and allowed for the detection of a large thrombus arising from an atherosclerotic calcified plaque in the thoracic aorta. We aim to illustrate the imp...

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Autores principales: Carrington, Mafalda, Briosa, Alexandra, Quadrado, Marco, João, Isabel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Images in Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9237722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35775020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/ytac247
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author Carrington, Mafalda
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description This a case of a patient with acute limb ischaemia in whom thorough transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) evaluation depicted a patent foramen ovale and allowed for the detection of a large thrombus arising from an atherosclerotic calcified plaque in the thoracic aorta. We aim to illustrate the importance of performing TEE when systemic emboli are suspected and to not neglect thoracic aorta evaluation when a potential intracardiac cause has been detected.
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spelling pubmed-92377222022-06-29 The importance of transesophageal echocardiography evaluation in a patient with acute limb ischaemia Carrington, Mafalda Briosa, Alexandra Quadrado, Marco João, Isabel Eur Heart J Case Rep Images in Cardiology This a case of a patient with acute limb ischaemia in whom thorough transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) evaluation depicted a patent foramen ovale and allowed for the detection of a large thrombus arising from an atherosclerotic calcified plaque in the thoracic aorta. We aim to illustrate the importance of performing TEE when systemic emboli are suspected and to not neglect thoracic aorta evaluation when a potential intracardiac cause has been detected. Oxford University Press 2022-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9237722/ /pubmed/35775020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/ytac247 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Carrington, Mafalda
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João, Isabel
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title The importance of transesophageal echocardiography evaluation in a patient with acute limb ischaemia
title_full The importance of transesophageal echocardiography evaluation in a patient with acute limb ischaemia
title_fullStr The importance of transesophageal echocardiography evaluation in a patient with acute limb ischaemia
title_full_unstemmed The importance of transesophageal echocardiography evaluation in a patient with acute limb ischaemia
title_short The importance of transesophageal echocardiography evaluation in a patient with acute limb ischaemia
title_sort importance of transesophageal echocardiography evaluation in a patient with acute limb ischaemia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9237722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35775020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/ytac247
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