Transesophageal echocardiographic detection of left vertebral artery origin stenosis

Echocardiography. 2002 Nov;19(8):695-7. doi: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2002.00695.x.

Abstract

We discuss the case of a patient with stroke in whom severe stenosis at the origin of the left vertebral artery was identified by transesophageal echocardiography and subsequently confirmed with conventional angiography.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carotid Artery, Internal / diagnostic imaging
  • Carotid Artery, Internal / pathology
  • Carotid Stenosis / diagnosis
  • Cerebral Infarction / diagnosis
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal*
  • Female
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Ventricles / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Middle Aged
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency / diagnosis*