Left Ventricular Thrombus in the Setting of Normal Left Ventricular Function in Patients with Crohn's Disease.
Crohn's disease results in a hypercoagulable state increasing the risk of venous or arterial thromboembolism. Cardiac involvement has not been routinely identified. Two cases are presented to illustrate that patients with Crohn's disease may represent an exception to the rule that left ventricular apical thrombus should be associated with an underlying wall motion abnormality and reduction in left ventricular ejection fraction.
Division of Cardiology, Boston Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
Ravi
R
Rasalingam
Division of Cardiology, St. Luke's Mid America Heart Institute Cardiac Consultants, Kansas City, Missouri.|Univeristy of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri.
Ibrahim M
IM
Saeed
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Pamela K
PK
Woodard
Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Julio E
JE
Pérez
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003328:Coronary Thrombosis / Q000473:pathology*; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology*
inflammatory bowel disease; thrombus; transthoracic echocardiography