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Contrast echocardiography for the diagnosis of left ventricular thrombus in anterior myocardial infarction.
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- Postprocessing Method for Enhanced Left Ventricular Thrombus Detection in Echocardiography.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Incidence of left ventricular thrombus following STEMI in the modern era via multimodality imaging: A systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2024Article
- Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Vitamin K Antagonists in the Treatment of Left Ventricular Thrombi.American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions · 2022Article
- The incidence of stroke in patients with early echocardiography after acute myocardial infarction.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2021Observational
- Management of left ventricular thrombus: a narrative review.Annals of translational medicine · 2021Review
- Multimodality imaging in takotsubo syndrome: a joint consensus document of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and the Japanese Society of Echocardiography (JSE).Journal of echocardiography · 2020Review
- Challenges in management of left ventricular thrombus.Therapeutic advances in cardiovascular disease · 2017Review
- Postoperative Assessment of Myocardial Function and Microcirculation in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome by Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2017Article
- Usefulness of contrast computed tomography to detect left ventricular apical thrombus associated with takotsubo cardiomyopathy.Heart and vessels · 2016Article
- Successful resolution of a left ventricular thrombus with apixaban treatment following acute myocardial infarction.Heart and vessels · 2016Article
- Resting qualitative and quantitative myocardial contrast echocardiography to predict cardiac events in patients with acute myocardial infarction and percutaneous revascularization.Heart and vessels · 2015Article
- Resolution of a left ventricular thrombus by the thrombolytic action of dabigatran.Heart and vessels · 2014Article
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Abstract
Although detecting left ventricular thrombus in anterior myocardial infarction is important for the prevention of embolic events, imaging of apical thrombus is often difficult using conventional echocardiography. We examined whether contrast echocardiography improves sensitivity and specificity in detecting thrombus in the left ventricle in comparison with conventional echocardiography alone in patients with anterior myocardial infarction. Participants in this single-center prospective study comprised 392 patients with anterior myocardial infarction admitted between 2000 and 2006. After conventional echocardiography, all patients underwent contrast echocardiography (left ventricular opacification and myocardial contrast echocardiography) during intravenous drip infusion of contrast media at rest. Left ventricular thrombus was diagnosed based on left ventriculography or multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT). Mural left ventricular thrombus was confirmed by left ventriculography and/or MDCT in 32 of 393 patients (8 %). Sensitivity and specificity of conventional echocardiography alone were 88 % and 96 %, respectively, compared with 100 % each with contrast echocardiography. Among the 32 patients with left ventricular thrombus, 25 patients (78 %) showed no perfusion in the anterior wall on myocardial contrast echocardiography, even with a four-beat interval. In conclusion, contrast echocardiography offers a clinically feasible and useful method for noninvasively evaluating left ventricular thrombus in anterior myocardial infarction.
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