Pinball-Like Free-Floating Left Atrial Ball Thrombus Presenting with Hemiplegia: A Challenging Treatment Decision

We describe a case of a patient with a history of chronic atrial fibrillation who presented with sudden onset of left hemiplegia. Nine months earlier the longstanding warfarin therapy had been suspended due to a hemorrhagic stroke. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a large free-floating highly...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Heart surgery forum 2015-12, Vol.18 (6), p.E263-E265
Hauptverfasser:	Demir, Tolga, Ergenoglu, Mehmet Umit, Tanrikulu, Nursen, Cizgici, Ahmet Yasar, Yildirim, Kemal Ilker, Demirsoy, Ergun
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged, 80 and over Brain Infarction - etiology Cerebral Hemorrhage - etiology Fatal Outcome Female Heart Atria - surgery Heart Diseases - complications Heart Diseases - surgery Hemiplegia - etiology Humans Mitral Valve Insufficiency - etiology Thrombosis - complications Thrombosis - surgery
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