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The Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump
Published on: February 5, 2021
Acute thoracic aortic thrombosis after intra-aortic balloon pumping
Constadina Aggeli1, Vassilis I Barberis, Charalambos Vlachopoulos
1First Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Abstract:
We present two transesophageal echocardiographic images of a patient with acute myocardial infarction, demonstrating a large thrombus attached to the thoracic aortic wall, considered to be a complication of intra-aortic balloon pumping. The patient had received the device because of hemodynamic instability due to an infarct-related ventricular septal defect. Clinical manifestations which led to the diagnosis of thromboembolism were abdominal pain and deterioration of renal function, without signs of limb ischemia.
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