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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance for the Evaluation of Suspected Cardiac Thrombus: Conventional and Emerging Techniques
Published on: June 11, 2019
[Systemic embolism in a course of acute myocardial infarction in a patient with left ventricular thrombus]
Beata Wozakowska-Kapłon1, Łukasz Dobaj, Katarzyna Starzyk
1I Kliniczny Oddział Kardiologii, Swietokrzyskie Centrum Kardiologii, Kielce. bwkaplon@poczta.onet.pl
Abstract:
We report a case of a 53-year-old man with acute myocardial infarction complicated on the 5th day of hospitalisation by systemic arterial embolism and renal infarction secondary to left ventricle thrombus. Clinical manifestations included: acute onset, nausea, vomiting, abdomen and flank pain. The diagnosis was confirmed by imaging findings: echocardiography and angio-CT performed during hospitalisation. Pathogenesis, clinical manifestation, prognosis and treatment of left ventricular thrombus and arterial embolism as a complication of myocardial infarction have been discussed.
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