Key result
10-day heparin therapy resolves asymptomatic intracardiac thrombus and pericardial fluid following pediatric blunt trauma.
Why the study?
Does heparin therapy resolve intracardiac thrombus caused by blunt trauma in a pediatric patient?
Case Report (n=1)
Does heparin therapy resolve intracardiac thrombus caused by blunt trauma in a pediatric patient?
Heparin therapy successfully resolved an asymptomatic intracardiac thrombus caused by blunt trauma in a pediatric patient.
May support short-course heparin in rare pediatric post-traumatic intracardiac thrombus; hypothesis-generating case report requiring prospective validation.
Intracardiac thrombus is a rare condition in children, although there has recently been an increase in case reports in the literature. We here report an asymptomatic intracardiac thrombus caused by blunt trauma due to child abuse in a 4-year-old girl. On the echocardiogram, one can see pericardial fluid surrounding all of the heart, and a mobile mass, a thrombus of 5.8 × 9 mm in diameter, was observed in the right atrium and on the free border of the tricuspid valve. The thrombus and pericardial fluid disappeared on the follow-up echocardiogram performed after the 10-day heparin therapy.
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Aşılıoğlu et al. (2012) conducted a case report in Intracardiac thrombus caused by blunt trauma (n=1). Heparin therapy was evaluated on Disappearance of thrombus and pericardial fluid. A 10-day heparin therapy successfully resolved an asymptomatic intracardiac thrombus and pericardial fluid caused by blunt trauma in a 4-year-old girl.
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