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SUBMITTER: Yoo YP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3611119 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yoo Yeon Pyo YP Kang Ki-Woon KW
Journal of cardiovascular ultrasound 20130320 1
The optimal treatment for free-floating massive right heart thrombi remains uncertain. However, they appear to increase the risk of mortality compared to the existence of a solitary pulmonary thromboembolism. Thrombolytic therapy has been shown to be effective in most patients, resulting in complete resolution of the massive thrombus and clinical improvement. We report the echocardiographic disappearance of a free-floating right heart thrombus after thrombolysis, however, the thrombus migrated a ...[more]