An Unusual Cause of Recurrent Syncope – A Large Free-Floating Left Atrial Thrombus

Rheumatic heart disease is the most common valvular heart disease in developing countries. Recurrent syncope due to a large, free-floating left atrial thrombus is a rare presentation of rheumatic mitral stenosis. We report this uncommon finding on echocardiogram in an elderly woman presenting to the...

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Autores principales: Reddy, S. Sreenivas, Baryah, Harkant Singh, Kaur, Jaspreet, Rao, K Raghavendra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9558641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36249441
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_86_21
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author Reddy, S. Sreenivas
Baryah, Harkant Singh
Kaur, Jaspreet
Rao, K Raghavendra
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description Rheumatic heart disease is the most common valvular heart disease in developing countries. Recurrent syncope due to a large, free-floating left atrial thrombus is a rare presentation of rheumatic mitral stenosis. We report this uncommon finding on echocardiogram in an elderly woman presenting to the emergency department with giddiness for the past few months.
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spelling pubmed-95586412022-10-14 An Unusual Cause of Recurrent Syncope – A Large Free-Floating Left Atrial Thrombus Reddy, S. Sreenivas Baryah, Harkant Singh Kaur, Jaspreet Rao, K Raghavendra J Cardiovasc Echogr Case Report Rheumatic heart disease is the most common valvular heart disease in developing countries. Recurrent syncope due to a large, free-floating left atrial thrombus is a rare presentation of rheumatic mitral stenosis. We report this uncommon finding on echocardiogram in an elderly woman presenting to the emergency department with giddiness for the past few months. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2022-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9558641/ /pubmed/36249441 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_86_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Cardiovascular Echography https://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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title_sort unusual cause of recurrent syncope – a large free-floating left atrial thrombus
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9558641/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_86_21
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