RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Rapid disappearance of left ventricular mass (presumed thrombus) in a patient with cardiomyopathy.
JF British Heart Journal
JO Heart
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Cardiovascular Society
SP 301
OP 303
DO 10.1136/hrt.47.3.301
VO 47
IS 3
A1 J Bensaid
A1 P Blanc
A1 P Virot
YR 1982
UL http://heart.bmj.com/content/47/3/301.abstract
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.