Successful anticoagulation for treatment of a giant left atrial thrombus.
(2010) Acta Cardiologica : an international journal of cardiology — Vol. 65, n° 6, p. 713-715 (2010)
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- We report the discovery at transthoracic echocardiography of a very large, sessile formation in the left atrium in a 77-year-old woman with permanent non-valvular atrial fibrillation who did not receive anticoagulant therapy. After six weeks of anticoagulation by subcutaneous low-molecular-weight heparin, a control echocardiogram demonstrated an almost complete resolution of the mass without systemic embolisation. This case highlights the success, without complications, of a medical anticoagulant therapy for giant left atrial thrombus.
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Floris, N., Gabriel, L., & Marchandise, B. (2010). Successful anticoagulation for treatment of a giant left atrial thrombus. Acta Cardiologica : an international journal of cardiology, 65(6), 713-715. https://doi.org/10.2143/AC.65.6.2059874 (Original work published 2010)