Free-floating Left Atrial Ball Thrombus in Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation

Nozomi Watanabe; Takashi Akasaka; Noriko Okahashi; Nozomi Wada; Takahiro Kawamoto; Kazuo Tanemoto; Kiyoshi Yoshida

doi:10.2303/jecho.3.91

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Free-floating Left Atrial Ball Thrombus in Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation

Nozomi Watanabe, Takashi Akasaka, Noriko Okahashi, Nozomi Wada, Takahiro Kawamoto, Kazuo Tanemoto, Kiyoshi Yoshida

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Keywords: ball thrombus, non-valvular AF

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2005 Volume 3 Issue 2 Pages 91-92

DOI https://doi.org/10.2303/jecho.3.91

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Abstract

A giant ball-thrombus was found in the left atrium in 78 year-old female with non-valvular lone atrial fibrillation. Intraoperative echocardiography revealed the thrombus was floating freely inside the left atrium. The thrombus was sometimes scarcely entrapped into the mitral annulus and bounded back toward the left atrium. The removed thrombus was 45×35×20mm in size.

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