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[Successful direct thrombin inhibitor treatment of a left atrial appendage thrombus developed under rivaroxaban therapy].
Orvosi hetilap - 24 Jan 2016
Szegedi Nándor, Gellér László, Tahin Tamás, Merkely Béla, Széplaki Gábor
Abstract excerpt
The authors present the history of a 62-year-old man on continuous rivaroxaban therapy who was scheduled for pulmonary vein isolation due to persistent atrial fibrillation. Preoperative transesophageal echocardiography detected the presence of left atrial appendage thrombus. Thrombophilia tests showed that the patient was heterozygous carrier of the methylene-tetrahydrofolate reductase gene mutation. The authors...
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