A free-floating left atrial thrombus develops intermittent entrapment in the mid-ventricle during diastole

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 428-431

  Fujiwara, Mikiko ^a   Watanabe, Hiroyuki ^a   Oguma, Yasunori ^a   Yamaura, Genbu ^a   Ishibashi, Kazuyuki ^a   Yamamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Nobori, Kiyoshi ^a   Iino, Kenji ^a   Yamamoto, Fumio ^a   Ito, Hiroshi ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ball thrombus; Echocardiography; Laminated thrombus; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; WARFARIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIASTOLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FREE FLOATING LEFT ATRIAL THROMBOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART VENTRICLE THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENTAL FINDING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE; THROMBUS ASPIRATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84864284217     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: 16152573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-011-0199-0     Document Type: Article

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