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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Atrial Communications before Transcatheter Closure
Published on: February 8, 2022
Assessment right atrial thrombus by real-time three dimensional transthoracic echocardiography in patient with
Wenjuan Bai1, Hui Li, Qing Zhang
1Echo Lab, Division of Cardiology Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
Abstract:
We report a case of a 52-year-old patient with dilated cardiomyopathy who presented with worsening heart failure. Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography and real-time three dimensional transthoracic echocardiography showed severe dilated cardiac chambers, impaired ejection fraction and a mobile right atrial thrombus 2.6 × 1.0 cm in size, traversing the right atrial cavity during the whole cardiac cycle. After one week therapeutic anticoagulation, echocardiography confirmed no evidence of residual thrombus.
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