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T Walther1, M Mochalski, V Falk
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center, University Leipzig, Germany.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|September 1, 1996
Abstract:
A 42-year-old patient had resection of two thrombi floating in the aorta under circulatory arrest. Atherosclerotic plaques in the isthmus and in the descending thoracic aorta predisposed the patient to thrombus formation. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography was used to guide the surgical approach.
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