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We report a 30-year old, previously healthy, Ghanese woman admitted with sudden onset of dyspnoe, hemoptoe and right-sided chest pain due to endomyocardial fibrosis with secondary pulmonary emboli. Coronary angiography revealed a myocardial “blush”. This finding may focus attention to the presence of mural thrombus that may have diagnostic and therapeutic consequences.
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Meuwissen, M., Somsen, G.A. & Piek, J.J. Neovascularity related to mural thrombus in endomyocardial fibrosis. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 15, 205–207 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006166810931
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