transesophageal

“Tomorrow morning he has to have something called a transesophageal echocardiogram.”

Little Earthquakes Jennifer Weiner 2004

Or, instead of taking warfarin, you may have a test called transesophageal echocardiography

Find Me A Cure 2010

Before he could have surgery, William Elkin underwent a diagnostic test called transesophageal echocardiography.

ThePittsburghChannel.com - Local News 2008

•Nondental procedures, such as transesophageal (inside the throat) echocardiogram, and gastrointestinal (stomach, intestine or colon) or genitourinary (bladder, kidney or genitals) procedures.

Home 2009

Sometimes the pictures are taken from inside your child's esophagus using an invasive technique called transesophageal echocardiography.

Pediatric cardiac diagnosis and testing 2010

Only three types of imaging studies can identify aortic aneurysms and dissections: CT, MRI, and transesophageal echocardiogram.

With Love and Laughter, John Ritter Amy Yasbeck 2010

The patient was promptly taken to the operating room, where she underwent transesophageal echocardiography, which showed no evidence of aortic dissection.

Medpundit 2005

Of course transesophageal echo can be performed if there is a more urgent indication but it is not 100% reliable in excluding thrombi so I would prefer to wait& anticoagulate in an asymptomatic patient.

Sometimes I Hate Being Good 1 Dinosaur 2007

In such patients, cardioversion should be delayed until the patient has been anticoagulated at appropriate levels INR 2.0 to 3.0 for three to four weeks or shorter term anticoagulation if screening transesophageal echocardiography has excluded atrial and atrial appendage thrombi.

Sometimes I Hate Being Good 1 Dinosaur 2007

The patient was promptly taken to the operating room, where she underwent transesophageal echocardiography, which showed no evidence of aortic dissection.

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