Mobile mass in the aortic arch: A case report

BACKGROUND: The finding of a floating mass in the aortic arch is rare and the management remains controversial. CASE REPORT: We describe a 42-year-old woman with an embolic infarction in whom transesophageal echocardiography revealed a mobile mass in the aortic arch that was characterized as atherot...

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Autores principales: Ghani-Dehkordi, Fatemeh, Esfandiyari-Bakhtiyari, Rostam, Alirezaee-Shahraki, Firoozeh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5677323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29147130
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author Ghani-Dehkordi, Fatemeh
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description BACKGROUND: The finding of a floating mass in the aortic arch is rare and the management remains controversial. CASE REPORT: We describe a 42-year-old woman with an embolic infarction in whom transesophageal echocardiography revealed a mobile mass in the aortic arch that was characterized as atherothrombi with an evidence of embolic infarction in the territory of the middle cerebral artery. Treatment with antiplatelet and anticoagulants failed to resolve the mass and is surgically resected. CONCLUSION: In conclusion, the presence of mobile aortic mass seems to carry a high embolic risk. The optimal treatment for mobile aortic arch atherothrombi remains to be elucidated.
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spelling pubmed-56773232017-11-16 Mobile mass in the aortic arch: A case report Ghani-Dehkordi, Fatemeh Esfandiyari-Bakhtiyari, Rostam Alirezaee-Shahraki, Firoozeh ARYA Atheroscler Case Report BACKGROUND: The finding of a floating mass in the aortic arch is rare and the management remains controversial. CASE REPORT: We describe a 42-year-old woman with an embolic infarction in whom transesophageal echocardiography revealed a mobile mass in the aortic arch that was characterized as atherothrombi with an evidence of embolic infarction in the territory of the middle cerebral artery. Treatment with antiplatelet and anticoagulants failed to resolve the mass and is surgically resected. CONCLUSION: In conclusion, the presence of mobile aortic mass seems to carry a high embolic risk. The optimal treatment for mobile aortic arch atherothrombi remains to be elucidated. Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences 2017-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5677323/ /pubmed/29147130 Text en © 2017 Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Center & Isfahan University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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title_full_unstemmed Mobile mass in the aortic arch: A case report
title_short Mobile mass in the aortic arch: A case report
title_sort mobile mass in the aortic arch: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5677323/
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