When PE is ‘in transit’

Authors :: Pramil Vaghasia
Keerthana Keshava
Ruchi Bansal
Horiana B. Grosu
Praveen Bondalapati
Anthony Saleh
Source :: Emergency Medicine Journal. 31:191-191
Publication Year :: 2013
Publisher :: BMJ, 2013.
Abstract: A 36-year-old male with no medical history had sudden onset dyspnoea on minimal exertion. He was hemodynamically stable, chest x-ray was normal and computer tomography showed a saddle pulmonary embolus (PE). A transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) revealed a large mobile thrombus in the right ventricle (RV) outflow tract and RV dilatation with …

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