A 62-Year-Old Woman With Pulmonary Tuberculosis Complicating Left Ventricular Thrombus and Splenic Infarction

Bao, Hairong; Liu, Xiaoju; Tan, Enli; Zhang, Yi

doi:10.1016/j.chest.2016.02.069

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“…Classically, Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) are more common in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Other unusual sites have been reported in the literature specifically splenic vein thrombosis [ 3 ], pulmonary venous thrombosis with atrial extension [ 4 ], left Ventricular Thrombus similar to our case [ 5 ]. DVT is clinically observed and can be confirmed with laboratory methods in 3–4% of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis [ 2 ].…”

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Lethal left cardiac thromboembolism in infant: A rare complication of pulmonary tuberculosis

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If acute or severe infectious are know that risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE), the role active tuberculosis is ill defined, despite different case reports and many small case series have proposed an association between VTE and chronic infectious such as tuberculosis. We are highlighting an exceptional phenomenon correlation between intra-cardiac thromboembolism and pulmonary tuberculosis and concluded that active tuberculosis should include in the physician's evaluation of intra-cardiac thromboembolism risk.

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