How do you treat patients with stroke thought to be secondary to Lambl excrescence?
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Neurology · University of Virginia, School of Medicine
Pathophysiologically, these occur through sheer stress to the valvular endocardium causing small areas to be denuded followed by fibrin deposition and microthrombi formation on the endocardial injury, which can embolize. Histopathologically, they have similarities to fibroelastomas (which are larger...