Theodoropoulos Konstantinos C, Papachristidis Alexandros, Papitsas Michael, Byrne Jonathan, Monaghan Mark J
Department of Cardiology, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, King's College London, London, UK.
Echocardiography. 2018 Jan;35(1):132-134. doi: 10.1111/echo.13769. Epub 2017 Dec 11.
We present a case of a 68-year-old man with calciphylaxis, who was found to have a floating thrombus in the descending aorta on a transesophageal echocardiogram. The use of 3D echocardiography demonstrated nicely the free motion of the thrombus, emerging from an atherosclerotic plaque in the descending aorta. Anticoagulation was started for thromboembolism prevention.