Left Atrial Free-Floating Ball Thrombus with Recent Cardioembolic Stroke

Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 34-36

  Matsuyama, Nanritsu ^a,b   Kodama, Toshihiro ^a   Wada, Naoki ^a   Hasegawa, Shigeto ^a   Asada, Kunio ^a   Sasaki, Shinjiro ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Hirakata City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardioembolic stroke; Cardiopulmonary bypass; Left atrial ball thrombus; Mitral stenosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA STENOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEMIPARESIS; HEPARINIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; STROKE; SUDDEN DEATH; THROMBUS; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HEART ATRIUM; HEART DISEASE; HEART SURGERY; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0036358829     PISSN: 13444964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02913484     Document Type: Conference Paper

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