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.
D'Cruz
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Department of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, V.A. Medical Center, Augusta 30910.
Sinden
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Sridharan
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Kleinman
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D000368:Aged; D003116:Color; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*