PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - J Bensaid
AU  - P Blanc
AU  - P Virot
TI  - Rapid disappearance of left ventricular mass (presumed thrombus) in a patient with cardiomyopathy.
AID  - 10.1136/hrt.47.3.301
DP  - 1982 Mar 01
TA  - British Heart Journal
PG  - 301--303
VI  - 47
IP  - 3
4099  - http://heart.bmj.com/content/47/3/301.short
4100  - http://heart.bmj.com/content/47/3/301.full
SO  - Heart1982 Mar 01; 47
AB  - A man aged 41 years with a clinical diagnosis of cardiomyopathy and hepatic insufficiency was found, on angiocardiography, to have a mass, presumably a thrombus, within the left ventricle. A second angiocardiogram performed five days later showed that the thrombus had disappeared. The mechanism invoked was more probably an increase of spontaneous fibrinolysis as described in cirrhotic patients, perhaps helped by heparin, rather than ejection of the mass from the ventricle with silent embolisation somewhere in the systemic circulation.