title: Mobile masses in the aortic arch in a patient with acute embolic event.
abstract: We describe a 45-year-old woman with peripheral embolism in whom echocardiography revealed mobile masses in the aortic arch that were characterized as atherothrombi. The masses were resected surgically 2 months later, since treatment with antiplatelets, anticoagulants and statins failed to resolve them.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Cardiology, Attikon Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Greece. papcost@gmail.com
authors.forename: Loukianos S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Rallidis
authors.forename: Costas
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Papadopoulos
authors.forename: Panayotes C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Michail
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Paraskevaidis
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Anastasiou-Nana
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001916:Brachial Artery / Q000601:surgery; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000473:pathology*; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D017128:Embolectomy; D017700:Embolism, Cholesterol / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged