Mustafa Houmsse
1, Asia McDavid
2, Ahmet Kilic
3*1 Metro Early College High School, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
2 The Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery; The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
3 The Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Abstract
An ascending aortic thrombus is a rare source for embolic transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke without an associated aortic pathology. Here we describe a case of a patient who presented with generalized symptoms of headache and fatigue who, on subsequent work-up, was found to have an ascending aortic thrombus with no obvious associated aortic pathology, and was successfully treated with apixaban, a newer direct oral anticoagulant.