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Neovascularity related to mural thrombus in endomyocardial fibrosis

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We report a 30-year old, previously healthy, Ghanese woman admitted with sudden onset of dyspnoe, hemoptoe and right-sided chest pain due to endomyocardial fibrosis with secondary pulmonary emboli. Coronary angiography revealed a myocardial “blush”. This finding may focus attention to the presence of mural thrombus that may have diagnostic and therapeutic consequences.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Martijn Meuwissen & Jan J. Piek

  2. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    G. Aernout Somsen

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Meuwissen, M., Somsen, G.A. & Piek, J.J. Neovascularity related to mural thrombus in endomyocardial fibrosis. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 15, 205–207 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006166810931

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  • coronary angiography
  • endomyocardial fibrosis
  • mural thrombus
  • myocardial blush
  • neovascularity