Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Young Female: Ball Valve Thrombus and Coronary Embolism in Rheumatic Heart Disease

Abstract

Acute coronary syndrome in a young patient should prompt a search for non-atherosclerotic causes too. This case demonstrates the classical finding of ball valve thrombus in a young female with rheumatic mitral valve stenosis and atrial fibrillation who presented with an acute inferior wall myocardial infarction due to coronary embolism.