Key result
TEE diagnoses left pulmonary vein thrombus causing bilateral femoral occlusion, resolved with thromboembolectomy.
Why the study?
Pulmonary vein thrombosis is an uncommon cause of cardiac thromboembolism requiring diagnostic confirmation by transesophageal echocardiogram.
Design
Case report
Authors
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TEE may detect rare pulmonary vein thrombi in embolic events; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Case Report (n=1)
Transesophageal echocardiography is an essential tool for diagnosing uncommon causes of cardiac thromboembolism, such as pulmonary vein thrombosis.
Garcia et al. (1996) conducted a case report in Bilateral femoral arterial occlusion and pulmonary vein thrombosis (n=1). Transesophageal echocardiogram and thromboembolectomy was evaluated on Recovery. Transesophageal echocardiogram successfully diagnosed a left pulmonary vein thrombus in a 78-year-old woman with bilateral femoral arterial occlusion, who recovered after thromboembolectomy.
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