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Chest, Vol 92, 171-173, Copyright © 1987 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Multiple pulmonary thromboembolism diagnosed by two-dimensional echocardiography

BC Maciel, JA Marin Neto, L Gallo Junior, LM Maciel, N Iazigi, PR Evora and JC Manco

A 55-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of progressive dyspnea, orthopnea and hemoptysis. Two-dimensional echocardiography multiple echo-dense images 1-4 mm in diameter were consistently seen crossing the tricuspid valve. A hypothesis of multiple pulmonary thromboembolism was raised. Clinical and postmortem evidence were later obtained to confirm this diagnosis.




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