3DTEE imaging of a descending aorta floating thrombus in a patient with calciphylaxis.

Konstantinos C TheodoropoulosAlexandros PapachristidisMichael PapitsasJonathan ByrneMark J Monaghan

Published in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2017)

We present a case of a 68-year-old man with calciphylaxis, who was found to have a floating thrombus in the descending aorta on a transesophageal echocardiogram. The use of 3D echocardiography demonstrated nicely the free motion of the thrombus, emerging from an atherosclerotic plaque in the descending aorta. Anticoagulation was started for thromboembolism prevention.

Keyphrases

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