Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Department of Gastroenterology, Southend Hospital, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom

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• Case Report   
  Thrombus in Transit: A Case Report of Right Ventricular Thrombus with Massive Pulmonary Embolism and Right Ventricular Strain
  Author(s): Zahid Ullah Khan*
  
  We present a case of 72 year old patient who presented with chest pain, shortness of breath (sob) for 2 days and 3 episodes of collapses with loss of consciousness (LOC). His past medical history includes Prostate carcinoma, hypercholesterolaemia and he had AstraZeneca covid vaccines 6 months ago. He was haemodynamically stable and had urgent Computerized Tomography Pulmonary Angiography (CTPA), confirming bilateral pulmonary embolism with evidence of right heart strain. His clinical examination was unremarkable apart from dyspnoea. He was commenced on twice daily treatment dose Clexane and was not thrombolysed in view of haemodynamic stability. He had urgent bedside echocardiogram confirming right ventricular thrombus with associated right heart strain, with no evidence of Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO). Electrocardiogram (ECG) showed right bundle branch block (RB.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7920.10001493

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