ReviewAnnals of vascular surgery2021
Symptomatic Common Carotid Free-Floating Thrombus in a COVID-19 Patient, Case Report and Literature Review.
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- The Floating Threat: A Rare Case Report of Carotid Saddle Thrombus in a Healthy Adult.Clinical practice and cases in emergency medicine · 2026Article
- A Retrospective Multicenter Study of Arterial Thromboembolic Events in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients: Incidence and Imaging Characteristics.Clinical neuroradiology · 2025Article
- Nomogram-based prediction of the prognosis in patients with free floating venous thrombus after closed traumatic fracture.BMC medical imaging · 2025Article
- Two case descriptions of urgent carotid endarterectomy: the characteristics of thrombosis and stroke at different time points.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Triple Stentriever "Bouquet" Deployment with Zoom 88 Large-Bore Aspiration and Walrus Balloon-Guide Catheter for the Definitive Thrombectomy of a Carotid Free-Floating Thrombus.Journal of neurological surgery reports · 2024Article
- Arterial floating mural thrombi are a characteristic imaging pattern in SARS-CoV-2-related ischemic stroke.PloS one · 2024Article
- Symptomatic Carotid Free-Floating Thrombus: About Management of 50 Cases in a Referral Neurovascular Center.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Carotid free-floating thrombus in COVID-19: a cerebrovascular disorder of cytokine storm-related immunothrombosis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2023Article
- Recurrent floating common carotid artery thrombus related to COVID-19: A case report.Journal de medecine vasculaire · 2023Article
- Successful Systemic Lysis Therapy of a Floating Carotid Thrombus in an Acute Stroke Patient with Known Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP) on Ongoing Eltrombopag Therapy and Acute COVID-19 Infection: a Case Report.SN comprehensive clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Carotid free-floating thrombus during COVID-19 vaccine era: causality or not?Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022Article
- COVID-19 and Peripheral Artery Thrombosis: A Mini Review.Current problems in cardiology · 2022Review
- Distinguishing Characteristics of COVID-19-Associated Mucormycosis; a Case Series.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Carotid free-floating thrombus is an uncommon entity that usually presents with neurologic symptoms. Crescendo transient ischemic attack is an accepted indication for urgent carotid endarterectomy. COVID-19 is associated with severe thromboembolic complications. We report the case of a 61-year-old man who developed, 2 weeks after the diagnosis of COVID-19, crescendo transient ischemic attack, complicating a large intraluminal floating thrombus within the right common carotid artery. A carotid thromboendarterectomy under local anesthesia, with patch closure was immediately performed without complications. We conducted a literature review to identify cases of common carotid artery thrombus related to COVID-19. Carotid free-floating thrombus in the common carotid artery is exceptional. However, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, 15 cases have been published.
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