Bedside Echocardiography for Undifferentiated Hypotension: Diagnosis of a Right Heart Thrombus
A free-floating right heart thrombus is often a harbinger of a massive pulmonary embolism and must be diagnosed and treated rapidly in order to avoid significant adverse sequelae. We present the case of an 84-year-old female who presented with two days of dyspnea and was hypotensive on arrival. Beds...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bc147nw |