Calcified left ventricular thrombus causing repeated retinal arterial emboli: clinical, echocardiographic, and pathologic features

Chest. 1981 Jun;79(6):708-10. doi: 10.1378/chest.79.6.708.

Abstract

The clinical, echocardiographic, and pathologic features of a discrete calcified left ventricular thrombus are presented in a young adult man with a two-year history of transient visual field defects leading to eventual loss of vision in his left eye. M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiographic studies suggested a large mass extending across the left ventricle. These findings were confirmed at surgery when a calcified mass pathologically consistent with a calcified thrombus was removed. The pertinent literature on the echocardiographic diagnosis of left ventricular thrombi is reviewed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Calcinosis / diagnosis*
  • Calcinosis / surgery
  • Cardiomyopathies / complications
  • Cardiomyopathies / diagnosis*
  • Echocardiography
  • Embolism / etiology*
  • Eye Diseases / etiology
  • Heart Ventricles
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Retinal Artery* / physiopathology
  • Thrombosis / complications
  • Thrombosis / diagnosis*
  • Thrombosis / surgery