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Left Ventricular Thrombus: Sensitivity and Specificity

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The sensitivity and specificity of findings for Left Ventricular Thrombus are listed below. See the left navigation bar to change the display.

Sensitive and Specific Findings

Finding SensitivitySpecificity Comments, Study
Trans-Thoracic Echocardiography Edit 92%88%

in a population with high prevalence of LV thrombus. Note that accuracy numbers are skewed because 7% of patients were excluded because of poor study quality.

Study: Chest. 1983 Feb;83(2):228-32. PMID: 6822107

 

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