Big thrombus “sitting” in an atrial septal aneurysm |
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Authors: | Julián Vega Adauy MD Luigi Gabrielli MD Samuel Córdova MD Rodrigo Saavedra MD Paul McNab MD |
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Affiliation: | 1. Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile;2. Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile |
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Abstract: | A 79 year‐old‐man presented three episodes of upper gastrointestinal bleeding and weight loss. Endoscopy revealed bleeding and extrinsic compression at the pyloric region. Computed tomography scan showed a pancreatic tumor, peritoneal carcinomatosis, vascular infiltration, and incidentally found a partially calcified hypodense lesion of 35 mm in the left atrium, suggesting a myxoma or a thrombus. Echocardiography revealed moderate left atrium enlargement, dilated left atrial appendage with spontaneous echo contrast, moderate dilatation and dysfunction of the left ventricle, ejection fraction was 39%, and an atrial septal aneurysm in which a piriform, mass of 35×33×25 mm, was “sitting,” suggesting an organized thrombus. |
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Keywords: | atrial septal aneurysm left atrial mass three‐dimensional transesophageal echocardiography thrombus |
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