Improved diagnosis of pulmonary embolism causing cardiac arrest by combined endobronchial ultrasound and echocardiography.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a life-threatening disease difficult to diagnose and manage in severe hemodynamic unstable patients. Transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is considered useful to improve diagnosis, but such approach has physical limitations for the interposition of the airways preventing the clear assessment of the left pulmonary artery. Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), a recently developed technique carried out using a modified bronchoscope having a small ultrasound convex probe at the tip allowing to perform ultrasonography examination of the mediastinum, can extensively visualize the pulmonary arteries on both sides.

Case presentation

We present the first use of EBUS to rapidly diagnose and subsequently treat a 64 years old woman with history of la

SUBMITTER: Bertini P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7339399 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature