CARDIAC THROMBOSIS

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Abstract
There has been but little added to the literature of true heart thrombi since the very complete monographs of Robinson and Welch. Desultory reports of such conditions are not uncommon, but, as Welch has pointed out, many of the observations on so-called heart thrombi are really records of postmortem heart clots entangled in, but not organically attached to, the muscle columns and trabeculæ. True heart thrombi, whether of the pedunculated or ball variety, are of such uncommon occurrence that their occasional incidence would seem to warrant study of the clinical and pathologic sides of cases in which they have been found postmortem. And this seems especially important in so far as the possibility of antemortem diagnosis carries with it a not altogether worthless bearing on the prognosis in a given case. It does not appear necessary here to point out the practical value of antemortem diagnosis

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