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European Journal of Echocardiography 2006 7(3):243-246; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2005.04.004
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Copyright © 2005, The European Society of Cardiology

Atrial septal aneurysm and spontaneous echo contrast: An association with higher embolic risk?

Tomás Francisco Cianciulli*, Demián Chejtman, Susana Beatriz Lipshitz, María Cristina Saccheri, Sergio Llanos Dethinne and Horacio Alberto Prezioso

Division of Cardiology, Clínica Bazterrica, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Received 18 January 2005; received in revised form 21 March 2005; accepted after revision 20 April 2005.

* Corresponding author. (a) Independent Researcher, Secretary of Health, Government of the City of Buenos Aires. (b) Clinica Bazterrica, Cardiology Department, Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz 3305 14° "A", Capital Federal (C1425DCB), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Tel.: +54 11 4801 5510; fax: +54 11 4801 4157. tcianciulli{at}fibertel.com.ar


  Abstract

We report the transesophageal echocardiogram of a patient who was admitted to the intensive care unit with a diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke, in whom a large atrial septal aneurysm (ASA) was seen bulging toward the right atrium with marked spontaneous echo contrast (SEC) inside but without thrombi, suggesting that ASA and SEC could represent a new association with higher embolic risk.

Keywords: Atrial septal aneurysm; Spontaneous echo contrast; Patent foramen ovale; Cardioembolism; Stroke


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