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Spontaneous echo contrast and thromboembolism

A Ansari1, B J Maron

  • 1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Fairview Southdale Hospital, Edina, Minn, USA.

Hospital Practice (1995)
|January 15, 1997
PubMed

Spontaneous echocardiographic contrast (a swirling, smokelike haze that appears in blood during imaging) indicates a predisposition to thromboembolism, particularly in patients with atrial fibrillation and elevation of hematocrit, ESR, and serum fibrinogen.

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