Disaster Averted: Surgical Treatment of Paradoxical Embolus in Transit

A 46-year-old woman presented with a syncopal episode and was found to have a large thrombus traversing an atrial septal defect extending across the mitral valve. She was taken to the operating room for emergent thrombectomy. We present the case, imaging, and a review of published cases. (Level of D...

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Autores principales: Shea, Nicholas J., Singh, Sameer, Song, Jeremy, George, Isaac
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Imaging Vignette
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317273
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.12.018
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description A 46-year-old woman presented with a syncopal episode and was found to have a large thrombus traversing an atrial septal defect extending across the mitral valve. She was taken to the operating room for emergent thrombectomy. We present the case, imaging, and a review of published cases. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)
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spelling pubmed-83115832021-07-26 Disaster Averted: Surgical Treatment of Paradoxical Embolus in Transit Shea, Nicholas J. Singh, Sameer Song, Jeremy George, Isaac JACC Case Rep Imaging Vignette A 46-year-old woman presented with a syncopal episode and was found to have a large thrombus traversing an atrial septal defect extending across the mitral valve. She was taken to the operating room for emergent thrombectomy. We present the case, imaging, and a review of published cases. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.) Elsevier 2020-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8311583/ /pubmed/34317273 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.12.018 Text en © 2020 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Disaster Averted: Surgical Treatment of Paradoxical Embolus in Transit
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title_short Disaster Averted: Surgical Treatment of Paradoxical Embolus in Transit
title_sort disaster averted: surgical treatment of paradoxical embolus in transit
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311583/
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