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Daizo Tanaka1, Harrison T Pitcher1, Paul J Mather2
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|December 5, 2015
Abstract:
We experienced a case with the left atrium almost completely filled with a thrombus after orthotopic heart transplantation while the patient was supported on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for primary graft failure. The patient had recurrent thrombosis even after successful surgical thrombectomy and appropriate anticoagulation. The cardiac thrombosis resolved only after starting plasmapheresis.
