Entrapped Cardiac Thrombus and Fatal Right Heart Failure due to Massive Pulmonary Emboli

Mobile right heart thrombus and massive pulmonary embolism.

The current report describes a patient with pulmonary embolism, treated unsuccessfully with heparin. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed free-floating right heart thrombus. Migrating deep vein thrombus to the right heart was suspected. Transesophageal echocardiography confirmed origin of the thrombus in the inferior cava vein. Mortality rate of mobile right heart thrombus is over 40%, there...

CASE REPORT Massive Fatal Pulmonary Emboli with Fibrinolytic Therapy

IN 1-2% of patients with deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary emboli develop despite therapy with heparin.' Episodes of DVT successfully treated with anticoagulant therapy may still result in venous valvular incompetence and lead to postphlebitic syndromes characterized by ulceration, varicosities and edema. Studies of thrombolytic agents suggest that early use of these drugs for extensive ven...

Mobile right heart thrombus and pulmonary thromboembolism.

Application of centrifugal pump in right ventricular failure due to pulmonary artery hypertension. (A case report)

Background: It has not been yet developed a ost suitable method to treat right ventricular failure due to pulmonar artery hypertention resulted from ventricular arrhythia. Though some case reports about patients ready to heart transplant using left assist device or biventral assist device as bridge have been published in Journals, but nocase concerning application of centrifugal pump for treatm...

Successfully treated massive pulmonary thromboembolism and thrombus in the right atrium due to diffuse malignant lymphoma: a case report.

A 40-year-old man presented with massive pulmonary embolism related to diffuse large B cell lymphoma. His hemodynamic state worsened rapidly to shock after sudden onset of dyspnea. Echocardiography and thoracic computed tomography indicated pulmonary thromboembolism due to deep venous thromboembolism, associated with a mass in the anterior mediastinum and a 5 x 8 cm mass in the left pelvis comp...