Atrial Thrombosis Caused by a Dislocated Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device After Mitral Valve Replacement

Moritz B. Immohr, MD; Yukiharu Sugimura, MD; Artur Lichtenberg, MD; Payam Akhyari, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Dec 2020)

Atrial Thrombosis Caused by a Dislocated Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device After Mitral Valve Replacement

Moritz B. Immohr, MD,
Yukiharu Sugimura, MD,
Artur Lichtenberg, MD,
Payam Akhyari, MD

Affiliations

Moritz B. Immohr, MD: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical School, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Yukiharu Sugimura, MD: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical School, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Artur Lichtenberg, MD: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical School, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Payam Akhyari, MD: Address for correspondence: Dr. Payam Akhyari, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heinrich-Heine-University, Medical Faculty, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.; Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical School, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 15
pp. 2327 – 2330

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A patient with a left atrial appendage occlusion device underwent mitral valve replacement. Later, the patient developed a left atrial thrombosis with thromboembolic myocardial infarction caused by a dislocation of the occlusion device. Exclusion of the device and non–device-based appendage occlusion may have prevented the patient from experiencing postoperative complications (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.).

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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