PMID: 6163349Apr 1, 1981Paper

Coronary arteriography and atrial thrombosis in mitral valve disease

The American Journal of Cardiology
T ColmanC M Durán

Abstract

The arteriographic findings of neovascularity and fistula formation from the coronary arteries to the left atrium have occasionally been reported in association with atrial thrombosis in patients with mitral valve disease. To establish the diagnostic value of these findings, the preoperative coronary angiograms of 507 patients who underwent open mitral valve surgery were reviewed. Atrial thrombosis was present in 76 patients (14.9 percent). In the 30 patients with angiographic neovascularity and fistula formation, the thrombi were always observed to arise from the circumflex coronary artery. None of these 30 patients had atherosclerotic coronary lesions. In 25 of these patients an atrial thrombus was found at operation. These coronary arteriographic findings, in this selected group of patients, had a predictive accuracy of 83.3 percent, a specificity of 98.8 percent and a sensitivity of 32.8 percent for the diagnosis of the presence of thrombus in the left atrium. No relation was found between these signs and the size and histologic age of the thrombi examined.

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