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A Case of Ball Valve Thrombus |
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| Authors: | Thanikachalam S Sengottuvel G George Susan Kumar M Sampath Shivakumar R V Balakrishnan K R Murthy J S N |
| Institution: | Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Porur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Abstract: | Ball valve thrombus is a very rare cardiac pathological entity; most case reports are postmortem. It is always associated with a very tight rheumatic mitral stenosis. The antemortem diagnosis of ball valve thrombus has become easy with the advent of echocardiography and even easier with biplane or multiplane transesophageal echocardiography, including the three-dimensional acquisition of images. We present the case of a patient with a ball valve thrombus diagnosed during routine echocardiographic examination as a prelude to surgery. |
| Keywords: | left atrial ball valve thrombus transesophageal echocardiography ball valve thrombus three-dimensional image of ball valve thrombus |
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