Prevalence and Aetiology of Left Ventricular Thrombus in Patients Undergoing Transthoracic Echocardiography at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital

Table 1

Baseline characteristics and comparison of disorders in subjects with and without left ventricular thrombus.

Characteristics	With LVT,	Without LVT,	value
Age, yr	45.43 ± 16.7	44.73 ± 16.73	0.71
Female	43 (51.2)	370 (53.0)	0.95
Male	41 (48.8)	328 (47.0)	0.96
DCM	33 (39.3)	180 (25.8)	0.17
MI	25 (29.8)	56 (8.0)	0.03
PPCM	18 (21.4)	53 (7.6)	0.24
HHD	6 (7.1)	301 (43.1)	0.18
RHD	2 (2.4)	108 (15.5)	0.99

LVT = left ventricular thrombus; DCM = dilated cardiomyopathy; MI = myocardial infarction; PPCM = peripartum cardiomyopathy; HHD = hypertensive heart disease; RHD = rheumatic heart disease.