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ated with the diagnosis of thrombi by transthoracic echocardiography. For overall left atrial thrombi, sensitiv-transthoracic echocardiography; transoesophageal echocar-Systemic arterial embolism is one of the most important complications in patients with mitral stenosis, and has been reported in 10–45 % of them[1–5]. In surgical and postmortem clinicopathological series, an associatio