J Am Soc Echocardiogr
Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands.
Published: August 1992
An 80-year-old woman was evaluated by transesophageal echocardiography after coronary artery bypass surgery and subsequent cardioembolic stroke. In addition to spontaneous echo contrast demonstrating a counterclockwise rotating blood flow pattern, we observed free vortex ring formation in the left atrium, originating in the left auricle. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of abnormal free vortex ring type flow pattern in the left atrium.
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