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Case Reports
. 2019 Sep;22(4):206-209.
doi: 10.14744/AnatolJCardiol.2019.65712.

Mitral valve and right ventricular thrombi possibly caused by heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

Ahmet Güner  1 , Anıl Avcı  2 , Abdulkadir Uslu  2 , Semih Kalkan  2 , Mehmet Özkan  2
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Case Reports

Mitral valve and right ventricular thrombi possibly caused by heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

Ahmet Güner et al. Anatol J Cardiol. 2019 Sep.
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Contrast enhanced computed tomography indicates the right segmental pulmonary embolism (a) (white arrowheads). Transthoracic echocardiography shows a mobile thrombus in the right ventricle and a nonobstructive mitral valve thrombosis (b) (white and red arrowheads, respectively). Two- and three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography demonstrate that a nonobstructive mitral valve thrombosis on the left atrial side (c, d) (white arrowheads)
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