The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 95, 733-734, Copyright © 1988 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association
Successful nonsurgical therapy of mural thrombosis of the left atrium after mitral valve replacement
H Akalin, U Ozyurda, T Corapcioglu, A Uysalel and A Sonel
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ibn-i Sina Hospital, Ankara University, Turkey.
Mural thrombosis of the left atrium is a complication of mitral valve
replacement. In this report we present a case of mural thrombosis of the
left atrium after mitral valve replacement treated successfully without
surgical intervention.