Issue: 2006 > January > case report

Mural aortic thrombus and peripheral embolisation in a patient with hyperhomocysteinaemia



CASE REPORT
M. Slabbekoorn, O.D.F. Henneman, P.H.L.M. Geelhoed-Duijvestijn, R.F. Veldkamp
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Abstract

A mobile thrombus of the descending thoracic aorta in
young people is extremely uncommon. We describe a 38-year-old woman with a mural thrombus in the proximal aorta complicated by peripheral embolisation, due to hyperhomocysteinaemia.