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Percutaneous suction technique successfully removed a large right atrial thrombus formed after ventriculoatrial shunt insertion for hydrocephalus.
Demonstrates the use of a percutaneous suction technique for the removal of a right atrial thrombus.
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May offer nonsurgical removal of post-shunt right atrial thrombus; hypothesis-generating case report, needs prospective validation before adoption.
We present a case of percutaneous removal of a large right atrial thrombus formed after insertion of a ventriculoatrial shunt for hydrocephalus.
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Khan et al. (2013) studied this question. Percutaneous suction technique successfully removed a large right atrial thrombus formed after ventriculoatrial shunt insertion for hydrocephalus.
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