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Transesophageal echocardiography, MRI, laboratory data for the coagulation system and administration of medicine. a Thrombus formation (arrow) in the apex of the left atrial appendage (LAA) on Day 8. b Acute multiple ischemic stroke due to NVAF in MRI (T2-weighted image). c Plot of laboratory coagulation data demonstrates high levels of SF during apixaban and heparin therapy, and a decrease in SF starting after dabigatran and heparin therapy
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Fig1
We performed transesophageal echocardiography, which revealed thrombus formation in the LAA (Fig. 1a). At Day 33, multiple ischemic strokes were revealed using magnetic resonance imaging (Fig. 1b). At Day 40, his SF level had normalized (5.6 mug/mL) and his D-dimer level decreased (5.5 mug/mL) (Fig. 1c).