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Thrombus in a normal left ventricle

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A 47-year-old women known to have mixed connective tissue disease and hypertension, presented with acute right leg pain requiring urgent right common femoral artery embolectomy with fasciotomy. During the immediate postoperative period, full-dose heparin and oral anticoagulant therapy were started. An echocardiogram revealed an echo-dense mass in the left ventricular cavity, but no additional cardiac abnormality (figure 1). On the sixth day of admission the patient developed a cerebrovascular accident with echocardiographic disappearance of the left ventricular mass.

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Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Hospital, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Department of Cardiology, VieCuri Medical Centre for Northern Limburg, Venlo, the Netherlands

Department of Cardiology, VieCuri Medical Centre for Northern Limburg, Venlo, the Netherlands

B.S.N. Alzand Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Hospital, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, the Netherlands

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Alzand, B.S.N., Ilhan, M. & Meeder, J.G. Thrombus in a normal left ventricle. NHJL 16, 24–25 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03086113

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