[A free-ball thrombus in the left atrium in the absence of mitral pathology].
One male 53-year-old that was diagnosed of dilated myocardiopathy two years ago, was admitted at the emergency room by acute pulmonary oedema, showing the two dimensional echocardiographic study one free-floating thrombus in the left atrium. Waiting for surgery the patient suffered a syncope that was diagnosed of embolic origin and the left atrial thrombus has disappeared.
Iglesias Cubero
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Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Central de Asturias, Oviedo.
Rodríguez Reguero
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Espolita Santos
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Tomás Mauri
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López de la Iglesia
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J
López Negrete
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D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004452:Echocardiography; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013575:Syncope / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*
A propósito de un trombo esférico libre en la aurícula izquierda en ausencia de patología mitral.