Population
n=1, 54-year-old Caucasian female presenting with ischemic stroke, morbidly obese, with a history of…
Comparison
Transesophageal echocardiography followed by… vs Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE)
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
20 days (hospitalization)
Authors
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TEE may identify myxomas missed by TTE in obese stroke patients; single case leaves open need for prospective validation before practice change.
TEE is crucial for detecting cardiogenic embolic sources such as atrial myxoma in obese stroke patients where TTE may be inadequate.
Yoo et al. (2008) studied this question.
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