Journal article
Delayed manifestation of a mid-esophageal tear with profuse hemorrhage after transesophageal echocardiogram
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.), v 25(3), pp 328-330
01 Mar 2008
PMID: 18307447
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Abstract
Esophageal injury or perforation is a rare but life threatening complication of transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE). Most of the patients manifest symptoms within 24 hours of the procedure and upper esophagus is the most common site of injury. We report a patient who underwent TEE for the evaluation of severe valvular insufficiency and 4 days after the procedure developed an esophageal tear in its mid portion associated with profuse upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Though delayed esophageal perforation in the lower segment has been previously reported after a perioperative TEE, no such report exists to our knowledge, in the setting of a nonsurgical TEE.
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- Title
- Delayed manifestation of a mid-esophageal tear with profuse hemorrhage after transesophageal echocardiogram
- Creators
- Sandeep Arora - Temple UniversityMithun Chakravarthy - Western Pennsylvania HospitalVenkatraman Srinivasan - Western Pennsylvania Hospital
- Publication Details
- Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.), v 25(3), pp 328-330
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 3
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- General Internal Medicine
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000253609800013
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-40149092829
- Other Identifier
- 991021962293704721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems