%0 Journal Article
%T A Cardiac Pseudoaneurysm as a Thromboembolic Source: Acute Visual Loss due to Cardiac Emboli
%A Antunes
%A Jos¨¦ A. S.
%A Carvalho
%A Rita J. R.
%A Fernandes
%A Sara I. L.
%A Guardado
%A Joana M.
%A Morais
%A Jo£¿o C. A.
%A Santos
%A Lu¨ªs M. G.
%A S¨¢
%A Fernando Montenegro
%J -
%D 2020
%R https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/3192957
%X Acute visual loss is rarely caused by a heart condition. This manuscript transcribes a case report of a 36-year-old patient with a 2-year history of aortic valve replacement due to bicuspid aortic valve endocarditis that presents to the emergency department with an acute right eye visual loss. After ophthalmologic investigation identified a central retinal artery occlusion, a transthoracic echocardiography was performed to search for a possible cardiac embolus, despite the patient presenting INR values of 2-2.5 for the last year. A mitral-aortic intervalvular fibrosa pseudoaneurysm was identified. A transoesophageal echocardiography was then performed, identifying a small clot logged inside the pseudoaneurysm that protruded to the left ventricle outflow tract. After INR-adjusted warfarin treatment to levels between 3 and 4, the pseudoaneurysm was surgically closed. This is a rare case since the likely source of embolism to the central retinal artery was the thrombus logged inside the pseudoaneurysm despite a standardly accepted therapeutic INR
%U https://www.hindawi.com/journals/cric/2020/3192957/