INTRAAORTIC THROMBI AS A SOURCE OF EMBOLISM IN A MIDDLE-AGED PATIENT WITH PROTEIN-C DEFICIENCY

With the introduction of transesophageal echocardiography, atheromatos is of the thoracic aorta is now well recognized as an occult source of systemic embolism in the elderly. In the absence of macroscopic ather omatosis, the presence of thrombi in the thoracic aorta identified by transesophageal echocardiography is an unexpected finding in a middle- aged patient with arterial embolism. Risk factors were investigated an d hypercoagulable state with protein C deficiency was demonstrated.