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Clinical Medicine & Research
Volume 2, Number 2 : 125 -127
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Case Report

Venous Thromboembolic Disease Presenting as Inferior Vena Cava Thrombus Extending into the Right Atrium

Anand Khurana, MD

Department of Internal Medicine, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin

Tahir Tak, MD, PhD*

Department of Cardiology, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin

REPRINT REQUESTS: Tahir Tak, MD, PhD, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of North Texas Health Science Center, 855 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth, TX 76104, Telephone: 817-735-2332, Fax: 817-735-2673, Email: ttak51{at}go.com

With increasing use of echocardiography, especially transesophageal echocardiography, the diagnosis of intracardiac masses has surged. Masses that are most commonly seen in the atrial chambers include thrombi due to atrial fibrillation, cardiac myxomas often located in the atria, and valvular vegetations of infective endocarditis. In this report we present a case of a patient who developed thrombus in the inferior vena cava that extended up to the right atrium and presented as an apparent intracardiac mass. This mass embolized to the right pulmonary artery shortly after diagnosis resulting in pulmonary embolism, which the patient fortunately survived.

Key Words: Vena cava, inferior • Thrombus • Myxoma




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