Calcified left ventricular thrombus causing repeated retinal arterial emboli: clinical, echocardiographic, and pathologic features.
The clinical, echocardiographic, and pathologic features of a discrete calcified left ventricular thrombus are presented in a young adult man with a two-year history of transient visual field defects leading to eventual loss of vision in his left eye. M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiographic studies suggested a large mass extending across the left ventricle. These findings were confirmed at surgery when a calcified mass pathologically consistent with a calcified thrombus was removed. The pertinent literature on the echocardiographic diagnosis of left ventricular thrombi is reviewed.
D000328:Adult; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004452:Echocardiography; D004617:Embolism / Q000209:etiology*; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012161:Retinal Artery / Q000503:physiopathology; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery