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A 66-year-old woman with cervical cancer developed recurrent cerebral infarctions due to nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis, highlighting the need for repeated echocardiography to detect vegetation.
Case Report (n=1)
Repeated echocardiography, including transthoracic and transesophageal approaches, is crucial for detecting transient vegetations of nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis in cancer patients with cryptogenic stroke.
May warrant serial echocardiography in cancer patients with recurrent cryptogenic stroke; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
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Ito et al. (2009) conducted a case report in Cerebral infarction induced by nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) with cervical cancer (n=1). Heparin sodium and clopidogrel was evaluated. A 66-year-old woman with cervical cancer developed recurrent cerebral infarctions due to nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis, highlighting the need for repeated echocardiography to detect vegetation.
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