Thrombus in Transit within a Patent Foramen Ovale: Gone with the Cough!

Pulmonary embolism and concomitant right atrial thrombus entrapped in a patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a rare, unusual finding in echocardiography. The diagnosis of paradoxical embolism is usually presumptive when PFO is detected by echocardiography. We herein reported a case of a 53-year-old patient...

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Autores principales: Kim, Ji-Hyun, Kim, Yong-Jin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Echocardiography 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3259544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22259663
http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2011.19.4.196
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Sumario:Pulmonary embolism and concomitant right atrial thrombus entrapped in a patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a rare, unusual finding in echocardiography. The diagnosis of paradoxical embolism is usually presumptive when PFO is detected by echocardiography. We herein reported a case of a 53-year-old patient presenting with pulmonary embolism in which a thrombusin-transit through a PFO was found and disappeared during transesophageal echocardiography.

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