[Patient with chronic Chagas heart disease, hepatosplenic schistosomiasis and acquired immunodeficency syndrome: possible spontaneous resolution of thrombus in the right ventricle].

نویسندگان

  • Manoel Otávio da Costa Rocha
  • Felipe Batista Lima Barbosa
  • Maria Auxiliadora Parreiras Martins
  • Maria do Carmo Pereira Nunes
چکیده

The presence of right-sided cardiac thrombi seems to increase the risk of death due to thromboembolic events. There is a discrepancy, however, between the prevalence of cardiac thrombus and clinical thromboembolic events. Besides, the individual characteristics associated with a high risk of mortality have not been established. We present here a case report of a patient with mansonic schistosomiasis and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and chronic Chagas disease, who presents with a large thrombus in the right ventricle. The patient had uneventful evolution without any thromboembolic complications with resolution of right-ventricle thrombus.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

دوره 45 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012