Transesophageal Echocardiography-Guided Dirofilaria immitis Extraction from the Right Atrium in a Dog.

abstract

• In Dirifilaria immitis infection, worms can migrate into the heart. Clinical signs are caused by hemolysis and and obstruction of blood flow. Transesophageal echocardiography guides removal of radiolucent foreign objects. TEE findings assisted in the extraction of intracardiac heartworms from a dog.

authors

• Saunders, Ashley
• Wesselowski, Sonya

published proceedings

• CASE (Phila)

author list (cited authors)

• Saunders, A. B., Wesselowski, S., & Cusack, K.

citation count

• 1

publication date

• August 2020

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

keywords

• Canine
• Foreign Body
• Heartworm Disease
• Retrieval

PubMed Central ID

• 32875199

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.case.2020.05.005

start page

• 299

end page

• 302

volume

• 4

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.case.2020.05.005