Echocardiographic Imaging of Intracardiac Thrombus and Evaluated its Underlying cause along Therapeutic Implications: A Review

Introduction: Transesophageal echocardiography(TEE) is considered to be superior to the transthoracic echocardiography(TTE) for detecting cardiovascular sources of embolism because of lack of intervening lungs and bone, and the use of higher-frequency imaging transducers provide enhanced spatial resolution and improved detection of intra-cardiac thrombi and spontaneous left atrial echo contrast, a marker of blood stasis.1 Clinical detection of ventricular thrombi is generally performed by TTE and evaluation of atrial thrombi is generally performed by TEE.2

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