Citation

Aşilioğlu N, Paksu MS, Sungur M, Demirel S. Pediatr. Emerg. Care 2012; 28(6): 566-567.

Affiliation

From the *Division of Pediatric Critical Care and †Department of Pediatrics, Ondokuz Mayıs University School of Medicine, Samsun, Turkey.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/PEC.0b013e318258bded

PMID

22668662

Abstract

Intracardiac thrombus is a rare condition in children, although there has recently been an increase in case reports in the literature. We here report an asymptomatic intracardiac thrombus caused by blunt trauma due to child abuse in a 4-year-old girl. On the echocardiogram, one can see pericardial fluid surrounding all of the heart, and a mobile mass, a thrombus of 5.8 × 9 mm in diameter, was observed in the right atrium and on the free border of the tricuspid valve. The thrombus and pericardial fluid disappeared on the follow-up echocardiogram performed after the 10-day heparin therapy.

Language: en