HEPATIC INFARCTION CAUSED BY AN EMBOLUS FROM AN ATHEROSCLEROTIC LESION - A CASE-REPORT

Authors
UEDA T MIZUSHIGE K IZUMI Y TSUDA Y SAKAMOTO H MATSUO H
Citation
T. Ueda et al., HEPATIC INFARCTION CAUSED BY AN EMBOLUS FROM AN ATHEROSCLEROTIC LESION - A CASE-REPORT, Angiology, 49(2), 1998, pp. 165-168
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Peripheal Vascular Diseas
Journal title
Angiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00033197
Volume
49
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
165 - 168
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-3197(1998)49:2<165:HICBAE>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Although it has been reported that emboli from atherosclerotic disease may be more frequent than commonly appreciated, hepatic infarction ca used by an arterial embolus is an unusual but serious complication. Th e authors describe a patient who had a secondary liver infarct during anticoagulant treatment for cerebral infarction. The thrombus causing the liver infarction was detected as a low echoic mass by transesophag eal echocardiography at the right coronary sinus.