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. 2020 Dec 29;32(4):498-499.
doi: 10.37616/2212-5043.1228. eCollection 2020.

A Multiloculated Left Ventricular Thrombus

Dinkar Bhasin  1 , Gaurav K Arora  1 , Anunay Gupta  1 , Hermohander S Isser  1 , Sandeep Bansal  1
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A Multiloculated Left Ventricular Thrombus

Dinkar Bhasin et al. J Saudi Heart Assoc. .

Abstract

A 50-year-old-man presented with worsening heart failure. He had suffered an anterior wall myocardial infarction nine years prior and had severe left ventricular dysfunction. On transthoracic echocardiography a mass was seen attached on akinetic left ventricular apex with multiple internal hypoechoic loculations, suggestive of a left ventricular thrombus.

Keywords: Left ventricular dysfunction; Left ventricular thrombus; Myocardial infarction; Thrombus.

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Figures

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Fig. 1
Transthoracic echocardiography images showing apical thrombus with multiple internal hypoechoic regions. Panel A: Apical four-chamber view; Panel B: parasternal short-axis view; Panel C: Zoomed apical two-chamber view.
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