Multiple thrombi in the left atrium

Multiple Thrombi in the Inferior Vena Cava and Right Atrium – Recurrent Thromboembolism Due to Polycythemia Vera

Mailing Address: Kevin Domingues • Avenida Bernardo Santareno. CEP 2005-177, Santarém – Portugal E-mail: [email protected] Manuscript received January 16, 2016; revised manuscript March 01, 2016; accepted March 01, 2016 Thromboembolic events are a major cause of morbidity in patients with polycythemia vera (PV), accounting for a third of the deaths in this population. PV is a clonal disor...

Occluding thrombi of the left atrium. Report of four cases treated surgically.

A Case with Recurrent Free-Floating Ball Thrombi in Left Atrium

BACKGROUND A free-floating ball thrombus in the left atrium is a rare clinical condition. However, the diagnosis of this condition has been facilitated by the advent and development of echocardiography and multi-detector row computed tomography (MDCT) and several cases have been reported. CASE REPORT We report a case of a 75-year-old woman who had recurrent giant spherical thrombi in the left a...

Multiple left ventricular thrombi in a patient with left ventricular noncompaction.

The major clinical features of myocardial noncompaction are heart failure, arrhythmias, and thromboembolic events. Prominent myocardial trabeculae and deep recesses characteristic of myocardial noncompaction can cause stagnant blood flow and the formation of left ventricular clots. We describe the case of a 62-year-old woman who presented with symptoms of heart failure secondary to left ventric...

Myxoma of the left atrium.

Tumours of the heart are not common. Benjamin (1939) reports the incidence of primary tumours as 0 03 per cent of 40,000 autopsies. Nearly 50 per cent of these primary tumours are myxomata or myxomatous polyps. Yater (1931) (77 cases), Mahaim (1945) (82 cases) and Pritchard (1951) (125 cases) have collected and reported cases and the number reported is probably still less than 250. Approximatel...