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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance for the Evaluation of Suspected Cardiac Thrombus: Conventional and Emerging Techniques
Published on: June 11, 2019
Subclinical thrombosis of the ascending aorta: a possible paraneoplastic syndrome
Victor X Mosquera1, José J Cuenca, Pablo Pazos
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Image Laboratory, Juan Canalejo Hospital, A Coruña, Spain. vxmr@yahoo.es
Abstract:
Thrombosis of the ascending aorta is a rare, potentially lethal complication. We report the case of a 56-year-old woman with a massive but subclinic thrombosis of the ascending aorta after two cycles of chemotherapy due to an epidermoid lung carcinoma stage T3 N2 M0. An emergent aortic thrombectomy was performed under deep hypothermic circulatory arrest. This thrombotic event occurred in an arterial vessel with high laminar flow, which is extremely uncommon and did not present any clinical manifestation.
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