Pulmonary and systemic embolism in a case of biatrial thrombosis. Role of two-dimensional echocardiography
Cazzani, E.; Benvenuto, M.; Muzio, L.
Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia 17(12): 1169-1172
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0046-5968 PMID: 3503817 Document Number: 294891
The authors describe the case of a 61-year-old woman affected with pulmonary embolism, in whom the presence of masses in both atria has been detected by two-dimensional echocardiography. The event of a systemic embolism and the dissolution of both masses after an anticoagulant therapy, has induced the authors to diagnose a biatrial thromboembolism propagating from the venous system and passage of thromboembolic material through a patent foramen ovale. These findings are, therefore, in differential diagnosis compared with other biatrial intracavitary masses.