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Transpharyngeal Echocardiographic Imaging of the Right and Left Carotid Arteries |
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| Authors: | Navin C. Nanda M.D. Andrew P. Miller M.D. Rajasekhar Nekkanti M.D. Srinivasa Aaluri M.D. |
| Affiliation: | The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Heart Station SW/S102, 619 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35249, USA. nanda@uab.edu |
| Abstract: | We present a technique for transpharyngeal imaging of the bilateral carotid arteries completed towards the end of a transesophageal echocardiogram. To our knowledge, this is the first report that demonstrates the bifurcation of the right common carotid artery into the right internal and external carotid arteries with a transesophageal echocardiographic probe. |
| Keywords: | transesophageal echocardiography transpharyngeal echocardiography carotid artery internal jugular vein |