Key result
Open heart surgery successfully removed a large pedunculated left ventricular thrombus in a young man with recurrent systemic thromboembolism.
Why the study?
Recurrent systemic thromboembolism associated with a large pedunculated left ventricular thrombus after acute inferior wall myocardial infarction in a young patient is a rare clinical scenario.
Open heart surgery is a viable treatment for removing a large pedunculated left ventricular thrombus causing recurrent systemic thromboembolism.
May support surgical thrombectomy for pedunculated LV thrombus in young post-MI patients with recurrent embolism; leaves open prospective data needs.
We present the case of a young man who has suffered from recurrent systemic thromboembolism since he developed an acute interior wall myocardial infarction at the age of 27. A large elongated, pendunculated left ventricular thrombus was found by two dimensional echocardiography and was successfully removed by open heart surgery.
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Park et al. (1986) studied this question. Open heart surgery successfully removed a large pedunculated left ventricular thrombus in a young man with recurrent systemic thromboembolism.
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