Perfect storm: a clinical case of multisite (brain, coronary, renal and spleen) embolism in patient with atrial fibrillation

Abstract

Nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cause of arterial thromboembolism, especially of ischemic stroke. Other than stroke AF-associated embolic events are usually underestimated but at least similarly important. We present a rare case of simultaneous multiple embolism in a 70 years old women with permanent AF.

Keywords

• atrial fibrillation
• stroke
• extracranial systemic embolic events
• coronary embolism