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Title: Successful anticoagulation for treatment of a giant left atrial thrombus
Author(s): N. Floris , L. Gabriel , B. Marchandise
Journal: Acta Cardiologica
Volume: 65    Issue: 6   Date: 2010   
Pages: 713-715
DOI: 10.2143/AC.65.6.2059874

Abstract :
We report the discovery at transthoracic echocardiography of a very large, sessile formation in the left atrium in a 77-year-old woman with permanent non-valvular atrial fibrillation who did not receive anticoagulant therapy. After six weeks of anticoagulation by subcutaneous low-molecular-weight heparin, a control echocardiogram demonstrated an almost complete resolution of the mass without systemic embolisation. This case highlights the success, without complications, of a medical anticoagulant therapy for giant left atrial thrombus.