EMBOLIC POTENTIAL OF LEFT-VENTRICULAR THROMBI DETECTED BY TWO-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
EMBOLIC POTENTIAL OF LEFT-VENTRICULAR THROMBI DETECTED BY TWO-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
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DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.70.4.588
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
HODGES, M
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HAUGLAND, JM;ASINGER, RW;HODGES, M
Whether an association existed between the echocardiographic appearance of left ventricular thrombi and systemic embolization was determined. The clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of 60 patients who underwent diagnostic 2-dimensional echocardiography for left ventricular thrombi were reviewed. Of these 60 patients (27%), 16 had evidence of systemic embolization. Multiple echocardiographic characteristics of left ventricular thrombi were analyzed, including mobility, shape, heterogeneity, echo density, layering, central echo lucency, presence within an aneurysm, and association with low density swirling echoes. Incidence of embolization was significantly higher in patients with thrombi that were mobile or protruded into the left ventricular cavity (P < 0.002 and P < 0.05, respectively). Bayesian analysis indicated that the pretest likelihood for embolization was 27% and increased in the presence of mobility, central echo lucency, and protrusion to 60, 50 and 40%, respectively. A stepwise regression indicated that mobility was the 1st and protrusion the 2nd most helpful echocardiographic characteristic in identifying patients with embolic phenomena. Clinical features were of less help in identifying the risk for embolization of patients with left ventricular thrombi. Nine of 31 patients (29%) with recent myocardial infarction (< 3 wk) had emboli in contrast to 5 of 26 patients (19%) with remote myocardial infarction (> 3 wk) (P = NS). The 3 patients without infarction had congestive cardiomyopathy and 2 had emboli.