Thrombi in Main Pulmonary Artery Detected by Echocardiography
10.4250/jkse.1994.2.2.225
- Author:
Kang Hyun LEE
1
;
Sung Oh HWANG
;
Kyoung Soo LIM
;
Young Ski KIM
;
Moo Eob AHN
;
Yoon Kyung CHO
;
Jung Han YOON
;
Keum Soo PARK
;
Kyung Hoon CHOE
Author Information
1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Pulmonary thromboembolism;
Echocardiography
- MeSH:
Anoxia;
Diagnosis;
Dyspnea;
Echocardiography;
Emergencies;
Female;
Humans;
Pulmonary Artery;
Pulmonary Embolism;
Thromboembolism
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Echocardiography
1994;2(2):225-228
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Clinical diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism is very difficult because clinical manifestations are nonspecific. Considering that this disease is life-threatening, prompt diagnosis and early treatment is critical in early course of the disease process. Emergency echocardiography can provide diagnostic hints for pulmonary thromboembolism. This report describes a woman who complained unexplained dyspnea and hypoxia, and was diagnosed with thromboembolism of main pulmonary artery detected by emergency echocardiography.
