Right atrial thrombus in constrictive pericarditis.
We describe right atrial thrombus complicated by tricuspid valve obstruction in a patient with constrictive pericarditis. This report highlights the role of surgical thrombectomy, and the investigation of constrictive pericarditis to exclude intra-cardiac thrombus.
Priestley
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Department of Cardiology, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
Wallwork
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Schofield
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D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed