| 1. | Also colour or power Doppler ultrasound identify a low echogenicity thrombus.
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| 2. | Arterial thrombosis is the formation of a thrombus within an artery.
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| 3. | Anticoagulant therapy is initiated to prevent further enlargement of the thrombus.
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| 4. | A thrombus may not be evident in the scan.
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| 5. | Also a vein lumen may show echoes without the presence of a thrombus.
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| 6. | The thrombus can then be detected by scintigraphy.
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| 7. | The thrombus generally forms in the left atrium, most commonly the left auricle.
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| 8. | This large burst of thrombin is responsible for fibrin polymerization to form a thrombus.
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| 9. | In this vein, the bacteria cause the formation of a thrombus containing these bacteria.
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| 10. | The haemostasis system becomes temporarily biased towards thrombus formation, leading to a prothrombotic state.
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