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Chest
; 96(2): 426-7, 1989 Aug.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-2752829
ABSTRACT
A woman presented with acute left leg pain requiring urgent left femoral embolectomy. Echocardiography showed a large, pedunculated left ventricular mass, but no additional cardiac abnormality. Clinical evaluation including cardiac catheterization and open heart surgery demonstrated no cardiac pathologic findings. At surgery, a large thrombus was removed from the left ventricle. We suggest that all patients with arterial embolic disease have echocardiography, even if heart disease is not suspected.