TY - JOUR AU - Watanabe, Hiroyuki AU - Shimbo, Mai AU - Terada, Mai AU - Kiso, Hironori AU - Shimizu, Seiya AU - Oguma, Yasunori AU - Iino, Kenji AU - Ito, Hiroshi PY - 2016 TI - Tricuspid valve chordae tendineae as protective filter to prevent massive pulmonary embolism JF - Journal of Thoracic Disease; Vol 8, No 3 (March 18, 2016): Journal of Thoracic Disease Y2 - 2016 KW - N2 - Although several cases of thrombus-in-transit associated with pro-thrombotic conditions have been reported (1-3), a transit thrombus located in the right ventricular (RV) cavity is extremely rare (4,5). Here, we report a case of nephrotic syndrome (NS) with a RV thrombus-in-transit that threatened to cause a fatal pulmonary embolism (PE). UR - https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/6796