Diagnostic dilemmas in a patient with multivascular embolic stroke

We describe a patient admitted to the intensive care unit with aphasia, which was due to an embolic ischaemic cerebral stroke associated with a previously unknown patent foramen ovale. Eventually, this finding during echocardiography led us to the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. The thrombotic compl...

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Autores principales: Delsing, C.P.A., van Duijnhoven, M., Arnoldussen, C., le Noble, J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum 2015
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Heart Beat
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4497986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26031637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12471-015-0720-7
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description We describe a patient admitted to the intensive care unit with aphasia, which was due to an embolic ischaemic cerebral stroke associated with a previously unknown patent foramen ovale. Eventually, this finding during echocardiography led us to the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. The thrombotic complications of pancreatic cancer, in combination with a large, patent foramen ovale, support the mechanism of a paradoxical embolism through the patent foramen ovale as the cause of cerebral ischaemic stroke.
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spelling pubmed-44979862015-07-15 Diagnostic dilemmas in a patient with multivascular embolic stroke Delsing, C.P.A. van Duijnhoven, M. Arnoldussen, C. le Noble, J. Neth Heart J Heart Beat We describe a patient admitted to the intensive care unit with aphasia, which was due to an embolic ischaemic cerebral stroke associated with a previously unknown patent foramen ovale. Eventually, this finding during echocardiography led us to the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. The thrombotic complications of pancreatic cancer, in combination with a large, patent foramen ovale, support the mechanism of a paradoxical embolism through the patent foramen ovale as the cause of cerebral ischaemic stroke. Bohn Stafleu van Loghum 2015-06-02 2015-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4497986/ /pubmed/26031637 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12471-015-0720-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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