Key result
An 80-year-old patient with a recent fracture developed a free floating right heart thrombus prolapsing into the right ventricle, leading to pulseless electrical activity and requiring resuscitation.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights a rare and highly fatal case of a free-floating right heart thrombus causing pulmonary embolism and rapid clinical deterioration.
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Alerts clinicians to free-floating right heart thrombus in post-fracture PEA; leaves open optimal detection and management strategies.
Lim et al. (2010) conducted a case report in Free floating thrombus in the right heart causing pulmonary embolism (n=1). An 80-year-old patient with a recent fracture developed a free floating right heart thrombus prolapsing into the right ventricle, leading to pulseless electrical activity and requiring resuscitation.
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