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European Journal of Echocardiography 2005 6(1):2-3; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2004.11.007
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Copyright © 2005, The European Society of Cardiology

Echocardiographic diagnosis of pulmonary embolism: a rise and fall of McConnell sign?

A. Torbicki*

Department of Internal Medicine, National Institute for Lung Diseases, Ul Plocka 26, 01-138 Warsaw, Poland

* Tel.: +48 22 691 2114; fax: +48 22 691 2414. torbi@pol.pl

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Please see page 11 for the article by Casazza et al. (doi: 10.1016/j.euje.2004.06.002) to which this editorial pertains.

Formally, the place of echocardiography in diagnostic assessment of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism is neither strong nor definitely established. In recent guidelines of British Thoracic Society transthoracic echocardiography is hardly mentioned.1 However, there is a universal agreement, that in an acutely unstable patient echocardiography may be highly suggestive of PE. In such an emergency case thrombolysis may be justified if other diagnostic test would result in additional risk or in delay of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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