Echocardiographic diagnosis of right atrial thromboembolism.
In a patient with congestive cardiomyopathy who died suddenly from right ventricular thromboembolism, antemortem two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated a right atrial mass with acoustic characteristics suggestive of a thromboembolus. These characteristics included an elongated structure that assumed multiple dynamic forms and lack of an intracardiac attachment point. Because of the high likelihood of right ventricular impaction of a cardiac embolus, an aggressive therapeutic approach to such lesions is advised.
D000368:Aged; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000150:complications*; D004452:Echocardiography; D006325:Heart Atria; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology