Left ventricular pseudothrombus: multimodality imaging rules out a "ghost image" of a thrombus seen on cardiac computed tomography

Abstract

Cardiac computed tomography showed a hypodense area in the apex of the left ventricle in a 57-year-old man with a history of anterior myocardial infarction three years earlier. To confirm or rule out a suspected thrombus, he underwent gadolinium-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, contrast-enhanced two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography, and three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography. Multimodality imaging ruled out the presence of a thrombus.

Keywords: Computed tomography; Imagen multimodalidad; Multimodality imaging; Pseudothrombus; Pseudotrombo; Tomografía axial computarizada.