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Chiari network entrapment of thromboemboli: congenital inferior vena cava filter
T A Goedde1, D Conetta, J D Rumisek
1Department of Surgery, University of Florida Health Science Center, Jacksonville.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|February 1, 1990
Abstract:
Pulmonary emboli and a right atrial thrombus enmeshed in a Chiari network developed concurrently in a 69-year-old man. The network perhaps functioned as an inferior vena cava filter preventing massive pulmonary embolus. Chiari network should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a right atrial mass and the presence of pulmonary emboli should suggest surgical removal.