Recurrent acute pulmonary emboli in association with acute myocardial infarction.
Left ventricular mural thrombi are a common complication of myocardial infarction, but right-sided mural thrombi have been reported only in blunt chest trauma, right ventricular catheterization, and pacemaker insertion. We describe a patient with AMI and subsequent right ventricular mural thrombi and ultimately pulmonary emboli. We believe a prospective study should be conducted first to evaluate the MI as a cause of right-sided mural thrombi and second to assess the right ventricle as a source of pulmonary emboli.
University of California, Irvine Medical Center, NJ, Orange 92668.
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Ahdout
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Damani
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Ultan
D000368:Aged; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000209:etiology*; D012008:Recurrence; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology