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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance for the Evaluation of Suspected Cardiac Thrombus: Conventional and Emerging Techniques
Published on: June 11, 2019
The vanishing vast ventricular thrombus
Lindsey Tilling1, Harald Becher
1Department of Cardiology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK. lindseytilling@hotmail.com
Abstract:
A 54-year old man presented with multiple pulmonary emboli and an incidental finding of a huge left ventricular thrombus. Transthoracic echo images demonstrated a globally dilated heart with very poor left ventricular function. It was elected to manage the patient medically, and he was commenced on warfarin therapy, resulting in completed resolution of the thrombus over 10 weeks. No underlying cause was found and he did not experience any further embolic events. This illustrates a rare case of a large ventricular thrombus in a patient with no underlying risk factors.
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