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BMJ Case Reports 2012; doi:10.1136/bcr.12.2011.5366
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Right heart free-floating thrombus after leg injury

  1. John Barbetseas
  1. Cardiology Department, Polyclinic General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece
  1. Correspondence to Dr Konstantinos M Lampropoulos, konlampropoulos{at}yahoo.gr

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A 70-year-old male patient presented to our hospital for investigation of chest pain. He had a history of muscle injury at the right leg during farm work 10 days earlier. Two dimensional (2D) and three (3D) transthoracic echocardiographic examination visualised enlargement of right heart chambers, with a huge wormlike free-floating thrombus, approximately 7 cm in length, in them (figure 1A,B). Due to the increased risk of an acute massive pulmonary embolism a full dose …

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