Original scientific paper
Right Atrial Pacemaker Lead Thrombosis Incidentally Detected by Transesophageal Echocardiography
Damir Fabijanić
Lovel Giunio
Marija Vujičić
Ivica Vuković
Ratko Ermacora
Nebojša Knežević
Abstract
In a 62-year-old man with permanent atrial fibrillation and recurrent stroke, a large right atrial thrombus attached to a permanent pacemaker lead was incidentally identified by transesophageal echocardiography. Surgical treatment, recommended because of the large dimensions of the mass, was refused by the patient, and thrombus was successfully dissolved by anticoagulant treatment. Pathogenesis of pacemaker lead thrombosis, clinical implications, diagnostic and therapeutic options are discussed.
Keywords
pacemaker, stroke; thrombosis; transesophageal echocardiography
Hrčak ID:
4963
URI
Publication date:
15.6.2005.
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