Huge thrombus in the ascending aorta: a case report and literature review

BACKGROUND: A floating thrombus in the ascending aorta is occasionally found in clinical practice. The treatment for such lesions is poorly defined and mainly depends on the clinical experience of the surgeons. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein report a case involving a 22- × 22- × 45-mm space-occupying...

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Autores principales: Wang, Baogang, Ma, Dashi, Cao, Dianbo, Man, Xiaxia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6727393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31484541
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-019-0975-y
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author Wang, Baogang
Ma, Dashi
Cao, Dianbo
Man, Xiaxia
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Man, Xiaxia
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description BACKGROUND: A floating thrombus in the ascending aorta is occasionally found in clinical practice. The treatment for such lesions is poorly defined and mainly depends on the clinical experience of the surgeons. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein report a case involving a 22- × 22- × 45-mm space-occupying lesion in the ascending aorta. The patient was successfully treated with surgical intervention. Thrombectomy and ascending aorta replacement were performed to prevent systemic embolization. Histopathological examination revealed that the lesion was a thrombus. CONCLUSIONS: Aortic computed tomography angiography is a useful examination technique for patients with aortic thrombi. Resection of the thrombus can effectively reduce the risk of recurrent embolism.
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spelling pubmed-67273932019-09-10 Huge thrombus in the ascending aorta: a case report and literature review Wang, Baogang Ma, Dashi Cao, Dianbo Man, Xiaxia J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report BACKGROUND: A floating thrombus in the ascending aorta is occasionally found in clinical practice. The treatment for such lesions is poorly defined and mainly depends on the clinical experience of the surgeons. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein report a case involving a 22- × 22- × 45-mm space-occupying lesion in the ascending aorta. The patient was successfully treated with surgical intervention. Thrombectomy and ascending aorta replacement were performed to prevent systemic embolization. Histopathological examination revealed that the lesion was a thrombus. CONCLUSIONS: Aortic computed tomography angiography is a useful examination technique for patients with aortic thrombi. Resection of the thrombus can effectively reduce the risk of recurrent embolism. BioMed Central 2019-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6727393/ /pubmed/31484541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-019-0975-y Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6727393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31484541
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