[Thromboembolism in dilative primary myocardiopathies].

A clinicopathologic correlation has been carried out in 26 autopsy cases of congestive cardiomyopathy, in order to establish the incidence and site of mural thrombosis and pulmonary and systemic embolism, and to evaluate the embolization in the natural history of the disease. Mural thombosis was observed in 15 on 26 cases (58%). 11 on 25 patients (42%) showed features of recent thromboembolism. In 2 of the latter, embolism occurred as a consequence of atrial fibrillation. Most of the embolic phenomena had not been recognized on the clinical ground. Thromboembolism represented the first symptom of the disease as well as a complication or the fatal event.