1985
DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(85)80031-0
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Right heart thrombus: Recognition, diagnosis and management

Abstract: The clinical, echocardiographic, hemodynamic, angiographic and pathologic features of five patients who had right heart thrombus are presented and their management is discussed. Two modes of presentation were recognized. In four patients, right heart thrombus complicated peripheral venous thrombosis and was associated with major pulmonary thromboembolism and right heart obstruction. In the fifth, it complicated myocarditis with heart failure and appeared to cause right heart obstruction. Two-dimensional echoca… Show more

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“…MRHT can be observed [8] by echocardiography [9] in 4 -18% of patients of severe PE [10]. Before the development of echocardiography, MRHT were identified at autopsy.…”
Section: Echocardiographymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…MRHT can be observed [8] by echocardiography [9] in 4 -18% of patients of severe PE [10]. Before the development of echocardiography, MRHT were identified at autopsy.…”
Section: Echocardiographymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We would like to emphasize that there is a continued debate in the literature on the treatment of right atrial thrombus: the conservative approach with drug therapylo-12 vs the surgical approach. 13 …”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Bei Verdacht auf eine Lungenembolie wird heute die zweidimensionale transthorakale Echokardiographie als eine der ersten diagnostischen Maßnahmen gesehen (5,16,25). Durch die zunehmende Verbreitung der Methode, auch in Aufnahme-und Intensivstationen kann der oft nur kurzfristig mögliche Nachweis von Transitthromben im rechten Herzen gelingen.…”
Section: Diagnostikunclassified