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J Am Soc Echocardiogr · Mar 1993
Case ReportsAortic dissection complicating cardiac surgery: diagnosis by intraoperative biplane transesophageal echocardiography.
- E S Katz, P A Tunick, S B Colvin, A T Culliford, and I Kronzon.
- Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, NY 10016.
- J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 1993 Mar 1;6(2):217-22.
AbstractAortic dissection is a rare but devastating complication of cardiopulmonary bypass. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography can be a useful technique to define the anatomy of the dissection, to evaluate its extension and progression, and to detect the presence of aortic insufficiency. We describe two cases in which transesophageal echocardiography helped in making a rapid diagnosis of aortic dissection during cardiac surgery and demonstrate how it may play a role in therapeutic decision making.
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