Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine (Jan 2018)

Asymptomatic Hypotension in a Patient with Catheter-related Right Atrial Thrombus

  • Michael Lu,
  • Scott J. Cameron,
  • Ryan Bodkin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2017.10.35608
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1

Abstract

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Atrial thrombi can be a complication in patients with indwelling central-line catheters, and failure to diagnose can potentially be lethal. This condition is generally associated with profound hypo-perfused states. Here we present a case of a 77-year-old female who arrived to our emergency department for evaluation of a leg laceration and was incidentally found to have a catheter-related right atrial thrombus using point-of-care ultrasound.