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Transesophageal Echocardiographic Identification of Thrombus Producing Obstruction of Left Pulmonary Artery Descending Lobar Branches and Bronchial Artery Dilatation
Author(s) -
Kang SeungWan,
Nekkanti Rajasekhar,
Nanda Navin C.,
Gupta Himanshu
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2002.00083.x
Subject(s) - medicine , thrombus , cardiology , bronchial artery , pulmonary artery , artery , radiology , left pulmonary artery , lung
We report an elderly patient in whom a thrombus in the distal left pulmonary artery was shown by transesophageal echocardiography to extend and produce obstruction of the descending lobar branches as well as dilatation of the left bronchial artery.