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20 patients with left atrial thrombus and sinus rhythm identified from 20,643 consecutive transesophageal…
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Supports targeted TEE only in high-risk structural disease or prior AF; leaves open prospective validation of screening utility.
Left atrial thrombus in patients with sinus rhythm is extremely rare and almost exclusively occurs in those with severe structural heart disease or a history of atrial fibrillation.
Agmon et al. (2002) studied this question.
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