Intraventricular clot and possible pathogenic role in cardiac death.

The presence of intraventricular clot is a dangerous occurrence that can act on the event death in many ways. The authors present a case of cardiac death by ventricular hypertrophy and cardiac-respiratory failure. The autoptic finding of two intraventricular clots suggests a formation subsequent to the hypertrophy and the peculiar position in which have been reported explains a mechanical action on atrioventricular flow rather than on a less likely, although not excluded, arrhythmogenic stimulation.