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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 11.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2009 Aug;2(8):969–979. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.03.017

Figure 1. Apical Thrombus by Anatomic and Tissue Characterization Imaging.

Figure 1

(1A) Representative example of apical thrombus (circle) concordantly detected by anatomic imaging (left, contrast echo 4-chamber, cine-CMR 2-chamber) and DE-CMR (center). (1B) Representative example of discordance between anatomic imaging and DE-CMR. DE-CMR identified a small mural thrombus (circle) within the apex. Cine-CMR and contrast echo were interpreted as negative.

For both examples, surgical resection enabled thrombus verification based on histopathology (right, H&E stain, low power), which demonstrated thrombus with associated fibroblasts (asterisk).