| Autor: |
Thomas P, Carrigan, Salman, Azam, Claire, Sullivan, Brian D, Hoit |
| Rok vydání: |
2012 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.). 29(7) |
| ISSN: |
1540-8175 |
| Popis: |
An 84-year-old woman with a history of severe systolic heart failure, a mechanical mitral valve, and atrial fibrillation presented to the hospital with syncope and is found to have a free-floating intracardiac mass on transthoracic echocardiogram that was absent 5 months earlier. Real time three-dimensional (3D) transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) images reveal a billiard-ball-looking mass thought to be a large left atrial thrombus causing syncope by transiently obstructing the mitral valve orifice. Real time 3D TEE offers several potential advantages for the evaluation of intracardiac masses. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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