Intraoperative diagnosis of an unsuspected left atrial myxoma by transesophageal echocardiography.

Anesth Analg

Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University Hospital of Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris Cedex 13, France.

Published: June 2002

The authors report the intraoperative diagnosis using transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) of an unsuspected myxoma in a patient admitted for an acute occlusion of the aorta, resulting in emergency excision of the atrial tumor. This observation illustrates the usefulness of intraoperative TEE examination to identify life-threatening pathology.

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