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International physiology. Development of left atrial thrombus following attempted percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty
K S Lee1, E M Tuzcu, J M Elliott
1Department of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio 44195.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|December 1, 1994
Abstract:
In this report, we describe two cases of attempted mitral valvuloplasty using an Inoue balloon in which left atrial thrombus was not present before transseptal puncture but developed within minutes of the puncture in one, and within 1 mo in the other, despite systemic anticoagulation.