Surgical treatment of impending paradoxical embolism through patent foramen ovale.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
We describe the case of a patient with deep venous thrombosis who had cerebral and extremity paradoxical emboli and an intracardiac thrombus crossing a patent foramen ovale identified by echocardiography. He was treated successfully with immediate intracardiac embolectomy and closure of the patent foramen ovale.
Medical subject headings
- Embolism
- Heart Diseases
- Heart Septal Defects, Atrial
- Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis
- Thrombophlebitis