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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lohrmann GM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3971888 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Case reports in vascular medicine 20140206
A 58-year-old female presented with acute arterial insufficiency to her left leg. Following cardiovascular evaluation using multimodality imaging, it was discovered that she had mobile thoracic thrombi overlying a normal descending thoracic aorta which had also caused a splenic infarction. This patient was treated with unfractionated heparin for three days and underwent subsequent thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) uneventfully with no subsequent complications at one-year followup. This ...[more]