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Figure 1. Large Left Atrial Thrombus.
This four-chamber view of the heart (Panel A) was obtained by transesophageal echocardiography in a 75-year-old man with longstanding nonvalvular atrial fibrillation who had recently had a transient ischemic attack. A large, immobile thrombus (T in the schematic drawing in Panel B) is attached to the posterior wall of the left atrium (LA). A smaller thrombus (T) is attached to the lateral wall of the right atrium (RA). A third thrombus was present in the left atrial appendage (not shown). The large left atrial mass is unlikely to be a myxoma because of the . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
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