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Paradoxical embolism through PFO leading to stroke in a gunshot victim with IVC injury

A 23-year-old man presented to the emergency department with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen, and was taken to the operating room emergently for exploratory laparotomy due to hemodynamic instability. The patient underwent inferior vena cava (IVC), bowel and ureter repair during the...

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Autores principales: Elms, Christopher, Robertson, Ronald D, Kimbrough, Mary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6240738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30473762
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjy308