Vanishing left ventricular thrombus in a woman with peripartum cardiomyopathy: a case report

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Anita Soni¹  Davinder S Jassal⁴  Iain DC Kirkpatrick³  Wafa A Altuwaijri² 

[1] Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Department of Physiology, St. Boniface General Hospital, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;Department of Radiology, St. Boniface General Hospital, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;Cardiology, Radiology and Physiology, Bergen Cardiac Care Centre, St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg, R2H 2A6, Canada

关键词: Thrombus;    Multimodality cardiac imaging;    Peripartum cardiomyopathy;   

Others  :  1165543
DOI  :  10.1186/1756-0500-5-544

 received in 2012-08-20, accepted in 2012-10-01,  发布年份 2012

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Altuwaijri et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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