Mural Thrombus: Diagnosis and Treatment Options
Jul 04, 2014 · Mural thrombus is formation of thrombus in an artery, most commonly the aorta. Mural thrombi can arise in normal arteries, in the context of hypercoagulability, or within aneurysms. The same term is used to also describe clots in the heart, such as post myocardial infarction in …
Apr 24, 2019 · Left ventricular (LV) thrombus is a common problem that is encountered in patients who survived from a large myocardial infarction, and distal systemic embolization is the main issue in these patients due to its major clinical consequences especially cerebrovascular stroke.
Large . apical . pendunculated. LV . thrombus (3 x 3 cm) Operation. Approach: Right-sided . left atriotomy. The LV thrombus. located at the apex and was hanging by a small stemat the base of the papillary muscle. extracted with gentle traction. Cross clamp: 20 min. no issue weaning from CPB.
Jan 27, 2020 · Late presentation MI with proximally occluded LAD on coronary angiography. LVgram shows dyskinetic apex with suspected LV thrombus. Echo confirms large lv thrombus large mobile LV Thrombus.
Large Left Ventricular Thrombus in a Patient with Systemic ...
Jan 01, 2017 · Cases of cardiac/nonvascular thrombosis appear to be exceptionally rare [2, 3]. We present a case of a patient admitted with a right temporal lobe infarct along with bilateral segmental pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis. Further workup revealed a large mobile left ventricular thrombus.
Apical mural thrombus: technical pitfalls | Heart
Since the late 1970s cross sectional echocardiography has been the method of choice for the detection of left ventricular thrombus. This is largely due to the high sensitivity (92–95%) and specificity (86–88%) of echocardiography in the detection of left ventricular thrombus. Cross sectional echocardiography also provides an indication of the size, shape, mobility, location, and point of ...
Successful Resolution of a Large Left Atrial and Left ...
A 79-year-old male was large lv thrombus admitted to the hospital for acute exacerbation of heart failure. The patient had history of atrial fibrillation and was planned for cardioversion. Preprocedure transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) revealed a large multilobulated mobile thrombus in the left atrial appendage. The patient refused warfarin therapy and instead chose to take rivaroxaban.
A 37-year-old female with a postpartum cardiomyopathy found to have poor LV function and a large left ventricular apical thrombus (3 cm × 3 cm) attached to the large lv thrombus apex by a narrow stalk. Given her ...
Left Ventricular Thrombus After Acute Myocardial ...
Importance Left ventricular (LV) thrombus is a complication of acute myocardial infarction (MI) and is associated with systemic thromboembolism. With randomized clinical trials investigating the optimal antithrombotic regimen in patients with MI who require concomitant chronic anticoagulation and with the emergence of the direct-acting oral anticoagulants, treatment options for post-MI LV ...
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