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Left Ventricular Thrombus in the Setting of Normal Left Ventricular Function in Patients with Crohn's Disease
Author(s) -
Rasalingam Ravi,
Saeed Ibrahim M.,
Woodard Pamela K.,
Pérez Julio E.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/echo.13081
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , left ventricular thrombus , thrombus , ejection fraction , ventricular function , disease , crohn's disease , heart failure
Crohn's disease results in a hypercoagulable state increasing the risk of venous or arterial thromboembolism. Cardiac involvement has not been routinely identified. Two cases are presented to illustrate that patients with Crohn's disease may represent an exception to the rule that left ventricular apical thrombus should be associated with an underlying wall motion abnormality and reduction in left ventricular ejection fraction.