Cerebral transient ischemic attack due to left ventricular thrombus formation in a young patient with silent myocardial infarction and normal coronary arteries

Int J Cardiol. 2009 Feb 20;132(2):293-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.08.070. Epub 2007 Dec 21.

Abstract

Among many cardiac diseases related to cerebral stroke, left ventricular thrombus formation due to silent myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries represents a rare cause of cerebral ischemia. We describe an unusual case of cerebral ischemia due to cardiac thrombus formation in a young patient with silent myocardial infarction and normal coronary arteries in which echocardiography and cardiac MR imaging clearly showed the embolic source.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Coronary Vessels
  • Heart Diseases / complications
  • Heart Diseases / etiology*
  • Heart Ventricles*
  • Humans
  • Ischemic Attack, Transient / etiology*
  • Male
  • Myocardial Infarction / complications*
  • Thrombosis / complications
  • Thrombosis / etiology*