Giant Left Atrium Associated with Massive Thrombus Formation 14 Years after Orthotopic Heart Transplantation

We report the case of a 60-year-old patient who underwent orthotopic heart transplant 14 years earlier. Routine echocardiography showed giant masses in the left atrium. There were no symptoms or thromboembolic events in the past. Magnetic resonance imaging study revealed very enlarged left atrium (8...

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Autores principales: Bartus, Krzysztof, Litwinowicz, Radoslaw, Kapelak, Boguslaw, Filip, Grzegorz, Wierzbicki, Karol, Lee, Randall J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7731837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33306328
http://dx.doi.org/10.21470/1678-9741-2018-0390
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author Bartus, Krzysztof
Litwinowicz, Radoslaw
Kapelak, Boguslaw
Filip, Grzegorz
Wierzbicki, Karol
Lee, Randall J.
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description We report the case of a 60-year-old patient who underwent orthotopic heart transplant 14 years earlier. Routine echocardiography showed giant masses in the left atrium. There were no symptoms or thromboembolic events in the past. Magnetic resonance imaging study revealed very enlarged left atrium (8.7 × 10.6 cm) occupied by irregular smooth mass (7 × 5 × 6.1 cm) with a stalk that was attached to the posterior left atrial wall in the area of graft suture lines. Intraoperative examination revealed a massive thrombus (12 × 10 cm) that filled almost the entire left atrial area.
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spelling pubmed-77318372020-12-16 Giant Left Atrium Associated with Massive Thrombus Formation 14 Years after Orthotopic Heart Transplantation Bartus, Krzysztof Litwinowicz, Radoslaw Kapelak, Boguslaw Filip, Grzegorz Wierzbicki, Karol Lee, Randall J. Braz J Cardiovasc Surg Case Report We report the case of a 60-year-old patient who underwent orthotopic heart transplant 14 years earlier. Routine echocardiography showed giant masses in the left atrium. There were no symptoms or thromboembolic events in the past. Magnetic resonance imaging study revealed very enlarged left atrium (8.7 × 10.6 cm) occupied by irregular smooth mass (7 × 5 × 6.1 cm) with a stalk that was attached to the posterior left atrial wall in the area of graft suture lines. Intraoperative examination revealed a massive thrombus (12 × 10 cm) that filled almost the entire left atrial area. Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7731837/ /pubmed/33306328 http://dx.doi.org/10.21470/1678-9741-2018-0390 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of 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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Giant Left Atrium Associated with Massive Thrombus Formation 14 Years after Orthotopic Heart Transplantation
title Giant Left Atrium Associated with Massive Thrombus Formation 14 Years after Orthotopic Heart Transplantation
title_full Giant Left Atrium Associated with Massive Thrombus Formation 14 Years after Orthotopic Heart Transplantation
title_fullStr Giant Left Atrium Associated with Massive Thrombus Formation 14 Years after Orthotopic Heart Transplantation
title_full_unstemmed Giant Left Atrium Associated with Massive Thrombus Formation 14 Years after Orthotopic Heart Transplantation
title_short Giant Left Atrium Associated with Massive Thrombus Formation 14 Years after Orthotopic Heart Transplantation
title_sort giant left atrium associated with massive thrombus formation 14 years after orthotopic heart transplantation
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