Thromboembolization complicating left ventricular pseudoaneurysm: serial two-dimensional and color-flow Doppler echocardiographic observations.
A left ventricular pseudoaneurysm was diagnosed by two-dimensional echocardiography and color-flow Doppler imaging, and confirmed by computerized tomography and angiocardiography, in a man with known coronary disease who had had recent recurrent systemic emboli. A thrombus within the pseudoaneurysm was visualized, and its disappearance on serial echocardiograms coincided with the occurrence of embolization to the aortic bifurcation.
Department of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, V.A. Medical Center, Augusta 30910.
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D'Cruz
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Sinden
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Sridharan
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Kleinman
D000368:Aged; D003116:Color; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*