PMID: 15227239Jan 1, 1989Paper

Free-floating left atrial thrombus in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: echocardiographic findings

Texas Heart Institute Journal
I OquendoL Garcia

Abstract

We report a free-floating left atrial thrombus detected by 2-dimensional echocardiography in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Two-dimensional echocardiography permitted definitive diagnosis, thereby indicating emergency cardiac surgery. To our knowledge, this is the first reported detection of a free-floating left atrial thrombus by 2-dimensional echocardiography in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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