Echocardiographic diagnosis of left ventricular thrombi.
Left ventricular thrombi have not been commonly recognized by M-mode or by cross-sectional echocardiographic techniques despite their frequency at postmortem examination in patients dying of cardiovascular disease. We discuss two patients, with left ventricular throbmi recognized echocardiographically and confirmed by pathologic and/or angiographic evaluation, whose M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiographic abnormalities add to the variable spectrum of appearance of left ventricularl thrombi. The sensitivity and specificity of echocardiographic techniques in the diagnosis of intracardiac thrombi are discussed.
D000328:Adult; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004452:Echocardiography; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000175:diagnosis; D011669:Pulmonary Wedge Pressure; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery