Right ventricular thrombus following a left anterior descending infarction: a rare case report of a common culprit
Tamar Bigvava, Andres Hoechli, Pablo Anabitarte, Robert Manka, Verena C Wilzeck, Edgar Francisco Carrizales Sepulveda, Avinash Radhakrishna, Deepti Ranganathan · 2026
Read Right ventricular thrombus following a left anterior descending infarction: a rare case report of a common culprit by Tamar Bigvava, Andres Hoechli, Pablo Anabitarte, Robert Manka, Verena C Wilzeck, Edgar Francisco Carrizales Sepulveda, Avinash Radhakrishna, Deepti Ranganathan (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13332494.txt.
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Tamar Bigvava and co-authors report a 2026 case of a blood clot forming in the right ventricle after a front-wall heart attack. The pairing is unusual, since such clots usually follow lower-wall attacks or lung embolism. Their patient was a 39-year-old man with chest pain and breathlessness.
Angiography showed a clot-blocked left anterior descending artery in a left-dominant system, treated with a stent. Four days later an ultrasound found the right ventricular clot, and cardiac MRI confirmed it, showing deep damage across the attacked territory including the tips of both ventricles and heavy small-vessel obstruction. Anticoagulation cleared the clot on later imaging, and after episodes of ventricular fibrillation he received a two-chamber defibrillator. The authors credit the wraparound artery anatomy for spreading damage into the right ventricle and stress MRI's value in spotting such complications.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Tamar Bigvava, Andres Hoechli, Pablo Anabitarte, Robert Manka, Verena C Wilzeck, Edgar Francisco Carrizales Sepulveda, Avinash Radhakrishna, Deepti Ranganathan |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 14504 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |