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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance for the Evaluation of Suspected Cardiac Thrombus: Conventional and Emerging Techniques
Published on: June 11, 2019
[Atrial myxom is a rare cause of peripheral embolus]
Tobias Kvanner Aasvang1, Marianne Vestergård Lind
1Ortopædkirurgisk Afdeling, Rigshospitalet, København Ø, Denmark. tobiasaasvang@yahoo.dk
Abstract:
Two case stories of seemingly healthy individuals, a 45 year-old male and a 54 year-old woman, with acute lower extremity ischemia caused by cardiac myxomas. Both patients had a lower extremity amputated and a removal of myxomas by surgery. In patients presenting with acute ischemia of the lower extremity surgeons need to consider this rare, but important diagnosis; especially in middle-aged, otherwise healthy patients. Performing an ultrasound sonography of the heart is the best way to make a diagnosis.
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