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MULTIPLE ATRIAL THROMBUS IN A SPLENECTOMİZED PATIENT WITH THALASSEMIA MAJOR

Veysel KIDIR¹, Ozan BALAKAN¹, Ali SÜNER¹, Dede ŞİT², Orhan AYYILDIZ<sup>3

1</sup>Dicle Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi İç Hastalıkları Ana Bilim Dalı
²Dicle Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi İç Hastalıkları Ana Bilim Dalı, Nefroloji Bilim Dalı
³Dicle Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi İç Hastalıkları Ana Bilim Dalı, Hematoloji Bilim Dalı, DİYARBAKIR

Keywords: Thalassemia major, Splenectomy, Intracardiac thrombus

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Many previously undescribed complications develop in the patients with thalassemia major due to improving survival. One of these complications is thromboembolic conditions. Hypercoagulability is known clearly especially in splenectomized thalassemia patients. The most common site of thrombosis is brain in the patients with thalassemia major. Intracardiac thrombosis is infrequent. We discussed a splenectomized patient with thalassemia major who has an increasing effort dyspnea and right atrial multiple thrombus last 2 years.

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