Key result
Echocardiography detects left atrial ball thrombus in combined mitral-aortic valve disease to enable surgical correction.
Echocardiography alone can provide sufficient diagnostic information to guide surgical correction of a left atrial ball thrombus.
May support echocardiography-only diagnosis for left atrial ball thrombus surgery; leaves open need for validation beyond single cases.
This report describes a patient with left atrial ball thrombus which was detected during echocardiographic evaluation of combined mitral-aortic valve disease. Surgical correction was performed entirely on the basis of the echocardiographic diagnosis.
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SCHÄFER et al. (1992) studied this question. Echocardiographic evaluation detected a left atrial ball thrombus in a patient with combined mitral-aortic valve disease, enabling surgical correction based solely on this imaging diagnosis.
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