Incidental Thrombus in Transit Causing Embolic Stroke

Thrombus in transit leading to paradoxical systemic arterial embolism is a rare echocardiographic finding in patients presenting with embolic stroke. We present a case of a patient who had an atrial thrombus in transit discovered incidentally and later suffered a fatal stroke. Etiologies of cardioem...

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Autores principales: Malm, Brian, Hermany, Paul, Morrison, Alan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5496107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28713430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3161972
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description Thrombus in transit leading to paradoxical systemic arterial embolism is a rare echocardiographic finding in patients presenting with embolic stroke. We present a case of a patient who had an atrial thrombus in transit discovered incidentally and later suffered a fatal stroke. Etiologies of cardioembolic stroke and the use of echocardiography in diagnosis and management are briefly discussed.
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spelling pubmed-54961072017-07-16 Incidental Thrombus in Transit Causing Embolic Stroke Malm, Brian Hermany, Paul Morrison, Alan Case Rep Med Case Report Thrombus in transit leading to paradoxical systemic arterial embolism is a rare echocardiographic finding in patients presenting with embolic stroke. We present a case of a patient who had an atrial thrombus in transit discovered incidentally and later suffered a fatal stroke. Etiologies of cardioembolic stroke and the use of echocardiography in diagnosis and management are briefly discussed. Hindawi 2017 2017-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5496107/ /pubmed/28713430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3161972 Text en Copyright © 2017 Brian Malm et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Incidental Thrombus in Transit Causing Embolic Stroke
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5496107/
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