Ball thrombi in the heart
| Autor: | Curtis F. Garvin |
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| Rok vydání: | 1941 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Heart disease business.industry Left atrium Rheumatic mitral stenosis Autopsy medicine.disease Auricular fibrillation Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Internal medicine cardiovascular system medicine Cardiology cardiovascular diseases Thrombus Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business circulatory and respiratory physiology Cause of death |
| Zdroj: | American Heart Journal. 21:371-374 |
| ISSN: | 0002-8703 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0002-8703(41)90910-9 |
| Popis: | Three ball thrombi have been encountered in 156 consecutive autopsy cases in which rheumatic heart disease was the principal or an important contributory cause of death. Rheumatic mitral stenosis with auricular fibrillation was present in all three cases. The ball thrombi occurred in the left atrium. It cannot be determined whether the ball thrombi were the cause of attacks of syncope which two of these patients suffered. The third patient died suddenly. At autopsy a smooth ovoid shaped thrombus was found wedged into the stenosed mitral orifice. |
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