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| Year : 2021 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 198-200 |
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Giant right ventricular clot: Smoking is injurious to veins!
Pankaj Jariwala1, Kartik Pandurang Jadhav1, Harikishan Boorugu1, Arshad Punjani2, Krushna Chandra Mishra3
1 Department of Cardiology, Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
2 Department of Internal Medicine, Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
3 Department of Critical Care Medicine, Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Pankaj Jariwala
Department of Cardiology, Yashoda Hospitals, Somajiguda, Raj Bhavan Road, Hyderabad - 500 082, Telangana
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/jicc.jicc_86_20
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Giant right ventricular thrombus is a rare characteristic of pulmonary thrombosis-embolism that is typically associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation. We found such a giant right ventricular thrombus in a patient who was a heavy smoker who had extreme type of COPD with cor pulmonale. He also had hypotension, hypoxia, low tolerance for exercise, congestive heart failure, and poor quality of life, which are the prognostic qualities in the patient's clinical scenario we mentioned.
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