• Anesthesia and analgesia · Jul 2004

    Case Reports

    Late presentation of esophageal injury after transesophageal echocardiography.

    • Drew A MacGregor, David A Zvara, R Morris Treadway, Jamal A Ibdah, James D Maloney, Neal D Kon, and Robert D Riley.
    • Department of Anesthesia, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1009, USA. dmacg@wfubmc.edu
    • Anesth. Analg. 2004 Jul 1; 99 (1): 41-4.

    AbstractEsophageal injury is a rare complication of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) associated with cardiac surgery. We report two cases of delayed presentation (2 and 6 days after surgery) of esophageal injury that were likely due to TEE. The differential diagnosis of postoperative pleural effusion or anemia must include esophageal injury from TEE, even 6 days after the procedure.

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