Successful surgical treatment for a thrombus straddling a patent foramen ovale: a case report

Paradoxical embolism (PDE) occurs after embolic material passes from the venous to the arterial circulation through a right-to-left shunt, which is frequently a patent foramen ovale (PFO). We describe the case of a patient with deep venous thrombosis and an intracardiac thrombus straddling a PFO and...

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Autores principales: Nemoto, Atsushi, Kudo, Mikihiko, Yamabe, Kentaro, Yozu, Ryohei
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3701557/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23721195
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-138
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author Nemoto, Atsushi
Kudo, Mikihiko
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description Paradoxical embolism (PDE) occurs after embolic material passes from the venous to the arterial circulation through a right-to-left shunt, which is frequently a patent foramen ovale (PFO). We describe the case of a patient with deep venous thrombosis and an intracardiac thrombus straddling a PFO and who was successfully treated with an emergency surgery.
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spelling pubmed-37015572013-07-05 Successful surgical treatment for a thrombus straddling a patent foramen ovale: a case report Nemoto, Atsushi Kudo, Mikihiko Yamabe, Kentaro Yozu, Ryohei J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report Paradoxical embolism (PDE) occurs after embolic material passes from the venous to the arterial circulation through a right-to-left shunt, which is frequently a patent foramen ovale (PFO). We describe the case of a patient with deep venous thrombosis and an intracardiac thrombus straddling a PFO and who was successfully treated with an emergency surgery. BioMed Central 2013-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3701557/ /pubmed/23721195 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-138 Text en Copyright © 2013 Nemoto et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3701557/
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