Evaluation of causal heart diseases in cardioembolic stroke by cardiac computed tomography

Figure 6 Left ventricular thrombus complicated with anteroseptal myocardial infarction. An 80-year-old man hospitalized with acute ischemic stroke underwent cardiac computed tomography (CCT) to rule out obstructive coronary artery disease. A: Diffusion-weighted brain magnetic resonance imaging shows hyperintense lesions in right thalamus and right posterior limb of internal capsule (arrow); B and C: Horizontal long axis (B) and vertical long axis (C) reformatted CCT images show round-shaped thrombus in left ventricular apex (arrow); D: Soap-bubble maximum intensity projection reconstruction image of whole coronary artery shows total occlusion of left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD, arrow) and right coronary artery (RCA, arrowhead); E: Polar map of left ventricular wall motion shows severely reduced anterior to anteroseptal wall motion perfused by LAD (arrowheads). LCX: left circumflex coronary artery.