Echocardiographic diagnosis of bland thrombus on an aortic valve.
Echocardiography is a valuable modality for imaging thrombi and vegetations. Although patients with systemic lupus erythematosus may develop Libman-Sacks endocarditis, in which punctate verrucous plaques are found histologically on valvular endocardial tissue, these lesions are ordinarily too small for ultrasonic imaging. We describe a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus complicated by systemic embolization, who had a large mobile aortic valve thrombus, which was discovered with the aid of echocardiography and was confirmed by surgical resection.
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Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, NY.
Freedberg
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Culliford
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Kronzon
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D000328:Adult; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000473:pathology*; D004452:Echocardiography; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis*