Syed Nauman Ali, Waqas Mazhar, Kashif Ali Hashmi, Shoaib Abid.
Frequency of left ventricular thrombus on pre-discharge echocardiography of patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction.
Pak Heart J Nov ;50(3):164-8.

Objective: To measure the frequency of left ventricular thrombus on predischarge echocardiography of patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction. Methodology: This cross sectional study was conducted at Chaudry Pervez Elahi Institue of Cardiology, Multan from 15th June 2013 to 14th Dec 2013. Patients of acute anterior wall myocardial infarction between 20-70 years of age of both genders were selected. Patients with previous myocardial infarction were excluded from the study. Detailed echocardiography examination was performed in all these patients to look for presence of LV thrombus and findings were noted.P-value<0.05 was taken as significant. Result: There were 219 patients in total. Males were 135 (61.6%) . Mean age of the patients was 49.56 + 10.21 years. Diabetes was present in 77 (35.2%),obesity in 82 (37.4%) and 123 (56.2%) were smokers. Left ventricular thrombus was found to be present in 21(9.6%). No significant relationship could be established with age, gender, smoking, diabetes and obesity. Conclusion: The frequency of left ventricular thrombus after acute anterior wall myocardial infarction was found to be present in a significant proportion of patients but is lower than that previously reported in the literature.

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