TY - JOUR
AU1 - Patel, Sameer
AU2 - Levin, Matthew
AB - Journal of Echocardiography https://doi.org/10.1007/s12574-023-00596-x C ASE IMAGE IN C ARDIO VASCUL AR ULTR ASOUND 1 1 Sameer Patel  · Matthew Levin Received: 22 August 2022 / Revised: 21 November 2022 / Accepted: 31 January 2023 © Japanese Society of Echocardiography 2023 The patient was a 71-year-old man undergoing aortic valve The average age of liver transplant recipients has been replacement and septal myectomy for severe symptomatic steadily increasing over the last decade and long-term sur- aortic stenosis and septal hypertrophy with dynamic left vival is over 40% [1]. Therefore, the number of patients ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction. Past medical undergoing cardiac surgery following liver transplantation is history included a successful liver transplantation in 2001. likely to increase. While varices have been shown to persist Pre-operative CT thorax performed the day before surgery after liver transplantation, there is a significantly reduced demonstrated paraesophageal varices. Prior to this scan, risk of bleeding owing to their reduced size [2]. Incidental there was no mention or diagnosis of varices in the patient findings of esophageal varices on TEE have previously been record. described in the emergency setting [3], however, not in the The images (Fig. 1, panel A and B) demonstrate a “neck- elective surgical setting. 
TI - Esophageal varices seen in cardiac surgery
JF - Journal of Echocardiography
DO - 10.1007/s12574-023-00596-x
DA - 2023-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/esophageal-varices-seen-in-cardiac-surgery-Xml9RYMG7x
SP - 181
EP - 183
VL - 21
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -