1. Free-Floating Ball Thrombus in Left Atrium
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Prabhala Rajagopal, Chaganti Venkateswara Rao, Pallem Peddeswara Rao, Kadali Venkata Nagaraja Kamalakar, Pannala Laxmi Narasimha Kapardhi, Damera Seshagiri Rao, and Sadasivan Jaishankar
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Left atrium ,Atrial fibrillation ,medicine.disease ,Sudden death ,Surgery ,Ball thrombus ,Stenosis ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Internal medicine ,Occlusion ,cardiovascular system ,Cardiology ,medicine ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,cardiovascular diseases ,Thrombus ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,human activities ,Body orifice ,circulatory and respiratory physiology - Abstract
Left atrial (LA) ball thrombus is a rare disorder. These ball thrombi are generally associated with mitral stenosis, and the restricted mitral orifice encloses the free-floating thrombus in the LA. There is a potential for fatal systemic emboli or mitral valve orifice occlusion that may result in sudden death. We report the case of a patient with tight rheumatic mitral stenosis in whom a ball thrombus was observed to bounce and rebound off the walls of LA on echocardiography. After the patient received anticoagulant therapy for 1 month, the thrombus was not found at surgery.
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- 1998
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