The authors report a case of a fifty-one-year-old man undergoing rehabilitation therapy following a stroke who suddenly developed right-sided pleuritic chest pain with dyspnea. Transesophageal echocardiography was used to demonstrate a nonoc clusive right pulmonary artery embolus, when other investigative modalities failed to establish the diagnosis.
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