Acute Embolic Events –Myocardial Infarction and Stroke, in the Presence of an Interatrial Septal Aneurysm

We will present the case of a 52 year old patient, admitted to our Department for exertional angina, with 2 recent acute events – inferior myocardial infarction and stroke. The coronary angiography revealed patent coronary arteries, without atherosclerotic lesions. The transthoracic echocardiography...

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Autores principales: Calin, CD, Calin, A, Lupu, M, Bucsa, A, Ginghina, C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Carol Davila University Press 2011
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Case Presentation
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22567057
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author Calin, CD
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description We will present the case of a 52 year old patient, admitted to our Department for exertional angina, with 2 recent acute events – inferior myocardial infarction and stroke. The coronary angiography revealed patent coronary arteries, without atherosclerotic lesions. The transthoracic echocardiography established the presence of an interatrial septal aneurysm with interatrial shunt. Under these circumstances, we have considered the presence of paradoxical embolism as a potential pathophysiological mechanism of the acute ischemic events. The percutaneous closure of the interatrial shunt to prevent the recurrence of embolic events will be discussed.
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spelling pubmed-31688222012-05-07 Acute Embolic Events –Myocardial Infarction and Stroke, in the Presence of an Interatrial Septal Aneurysm Calin, CD Calin, A Lupu, M Bucsa, A Ginghina, C J Med Life Case Presentation We will present the case of a 52 year old patient, admitted to our Department for exertional angina, with 2 recent acute events – inferior myocardial infarction and stroke. The coronary angiography revealed patent coronary arteries, without atherosclerotic lesions. The transthoracic echocardiography established the presence of an interatrial septal aneurysm with interatrial shunt. Under these circumstances, we have considered the presence of paradoxical embolism as a potential pathophysiological mechanism of the acute ischemic events. The percutaneous closure of the interatrial shunt to prevent the recurrence of embolic events will be discussed. Carol Davila University Press 2011-08-15 2011-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3168822/ /pubmed/22567057 Text en ©Carol Davila University Press http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Acute Embolic Events –Myocardial Infarction and Stroke, in the Presence of an Interatrial Septal Aneurysm
title Acute Embolic Events –Myocardial Infarction and Stroke, in the Presence of an Interatrial Septal Aneurysm
title_full Acute Embolic Events –Myocardial Infarction and Stroke, in the Presence of an Interatrial Septal Aneurysm
title_fullStr Acute Embolic Events –Myocardial Infarction and Stroke, in the Presence of an Interatrial Septal Aneurysm
title_full_unstemmed Acute Embolic Events –Myocardial Infarction and Stroke, in the Presence of an Interatrial Septal Aneurysm
title_short Acute Embolic Events –Myocardial Infarction and Stroke, in the Presence of an Interatrial Septal Aneurysm
title_sort acute embolic events –myocardial infarction and stroke, in the presence of an interatrial septal aneurysm
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168822/
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