Watch Out for Left Atrial Roof Thrombus

Rheumatic mitral stenosis is often associated with thrombus formation in the left atrium (LA), especially in patients with atrial fibrillation. Although thrombus can occur anywhere within the LA, the most common site is the left atrial appendage. Therefore, it is important to carefully screen the en...

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Autores principales: Shringarpure, Amruta, Desai, Pushkar M, Umbarkar, Sanjeeta, Sarkar, Manjula
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6206796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30333347
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aca.ACA_43_18
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author Shringarpure, Amruta
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description Rheumatic mitral stenosis is often associated with thrombus formation in the left atrium (LA), especially in patients with atrial fibrillation. Although thrombus can occur anywhere within the LA, the most common site is the left atrial appendage. Therefore, it is important to carefully screen the entire LA during perioperative transesophageal echocardiography to exclude thrombus.
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spelling pubmed-62067962018-11-21 Watch Out for Left Atrial Roof Thrombus Shringarpure, Amruta Desai, Pushkar M Umbarkar, Sanjeeta Sarkar, Manjula Ann Card Anaesth Interesting Images Rheumatic mitral stenosis is often associated with thrombus formation in the left atrium (LA), especially in patients with atrial fibrillation. Although thrombus can occur anywhere within the LA, the most common site is the left atrial appendage. Therefore, it is important to carefully screen the entire LA during perioperative transesophageal echocardiography to exclude thrombus. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6206796/ /pubmed/30333347 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aca.ACA_43_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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