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[Unusual cause of myocardial infarction]
P Blanc1, H Douard, E Santiano
1Service de cardiologie des professeurs Roudaut et Douard, hôpital cardiologique du Haut-Lévèque, avenue de Magellan, 33604 Pessac.
Archives Des Maladies Du Coeur Et Des Vaisseaux
|December 5, 2003
Abstract:
The authors report the case of a woman with an acute myocardial infarction in whom coronary angiography performed a few hours earlier was completely normal. Transoesophageal echocardiography showed two thrombi in the left atrial appendage confirming the thromboembolic mechanism of this infarct.