Unusual Site of Left Ventricular Thrombus after Acute Myocardial Infarction

Left ventricular (LV) thrombus formation is a frequent complication in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction (MI). Its incidence is lower with inferior wall MI. Risk factors for the development of LV thrombus are consistently irrespective of infarct treatment and include large infarct s...

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Autores principales: Ali, Amjad, Vijaykumar, J. R., Manjunath, Cholenahally N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28465941
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2211-4122.166081
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description Left ventricular (LV) thrombus formation is a frequent complication in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction (MI). Its incidence is lower with inferior wall MI. Risk factors for the development of LV thrombus are consistently irrespective of infarct treatment and include large infarct size, severe apical akinesia or dyskinesia LV aneurysm, and anterior MI.
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spelling pubmed-53534102017-05-02 Unusual Site of Left Ventricular Thrombus after Acute Myocardial Infarction Ali, Amjad Vijaykumar, J. R. Manjunath, Cholenahally N. J Cardiovasc Echogr Case Report Left ventricular (LV) thrombus formation is a frequent complication in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction (MI). Its incidence is lower with inferior wall MI. Risk factors for the development of LV thrombus are consistently irrespective of infarct treatment and include large infarct size, severe apical akinesia or dyskinesia LV aneurysm, and anterior MI. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC5353410/ /pubmed/28465941 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2211-4122.166081 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Journal of Cardiovascular Echography http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full Unusual Site of Left Ventricular Thrombus after Acute Myocardial Infarction
title_fullStr Unusual Site of Left Ventricular Thrombus after Acute Myocardial Infarction
title_full_unstemmed Unusual Site of Left Ventricular Thrombus after Acute Myocardial Infarction
title_short Unusual Site of Left Ventricular Thrombus after Acute Myocardial Infarction
title_sort unusual site of left ventricular thrombus after acute myocardial infarction
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353410/
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