Right atrial ball thrombus after an intraatrial repair in a 3-year-old girl

Masato Kimura; Hisao Yaoita; Osam Adachi; Shigeo Kure

doi:10.1016/j.carpath.2016.09.006

Right atrial ball thrombus after an intraatrial repair in a 3-year-old girl

Cardiovasc Pathol. 2016 Nov-Dec;25(6):522-524. doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2016.09.006. Epub 2016 Oct 6.

Authors

Masato Kimura¹, Hisao Yaoita², Osam Adachi³, Shigeo Kure²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574, Japan. Electronic address: mkimura774@med.tohoku.ac.jp.
² Department of Pediatrics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574, Japan.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574, Japan.

PMID: 27768945
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2016.09.006

Abstract

We describe the case of a 3-year-old girl who presented with a large, mobile, ball mass in the right atrium on routine transthoracic echocardiography at one year after an intraatrial repair. Considering the risk of pulmonary embolization, emergent surgery was successfully performed to remove the mass, and histopathological examination revealed that it was a ball thrombus with a fibrin clot.

Keywords: Anticoagulation; Ball thrombus; Intraatrial repair; Myxoma.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures / adverse effects*
Child, Preschool
Down Syndrome / complications
Echocardiography
Female
Heart Atria / pathology*
Heart Diseases / etiology
Heart Diseases / pathology*
Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / genetics
Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / surgery*
Humans
Thrombosis / etiology
Thrombosis / pathology*