Publications by authors named "Sven L Van Laer"

Sclerosing pneumocytomas are rare, benign pulmonary neoplasms that predominantly affect Asian female patients in the age category of 40-70 years, mostly non-smokers. We report on a 72-year-old Caucasian woman with chondrosarcoma of the hand who developed multiple bilateral progressive lung nodules suspicious of lung metastases. Staged lung resections were performed, and pathological diagnosis was confirmed by immunohistochemical analysis of the resected specimens.

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The current study assessed the effect of mitral regurgitation (MR) on thrombotic risk in nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation (AF). AF carries a thrombotic risk related to left atrial blood stasis. The prevalence of atrial thrombosis, defined as the presence of left atrial appendage thrombus and/or left atrial spontaneous echo contrast grade >2, was determined in 686 consecutive nonrheumatic AF patients without (adequate) anticoagulation scheduled for transesophageal echocardiography before electrical cardioversion and was related to the severity of MR adjusted for the CHADS-VASc score.

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