Stroke-Like Symptoms During Sexual Intercourse in a 25-Year-Old Female with a Patent Foramen Ovale

A 25-year-old female who presented with stroke-like symptoms during sexual intercourse was found to have a patent foramen ovale (PFO). She was diagnosed with a cryptogenic transient ischemic attack (TIA) and underwent a successful catheter-based PFO closure. She had complete resolution of symptoms d...

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Autores principales: McCabe, Adair M, Platek, Nicholas M, Palmieri, James R, Foerst, Jason R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9414168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36043015
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27332
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description A 25-year-old female who presented with stroke-like symptoms during sexual intercourse was found to have a patent foramen ovale (PFO). She was diagnosed with a cryptogenic transient ischemic attack (TIA) and underwent a successful catheter-based PFO closure. She had complete resolution of symptoms during both intercourse and physical activity.
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spelling pubmed-94141682022-08-29 Stroke-Like Symptoms During Sexual Intercourse in a 25-Year-Old Female with a Patent Foramen Ovale McCabe, Adair M Platek, Nicholas M Palmieri, James R Foerst, Jason R Cureus Cardiology A 25-year-old female who presented with stroke-like symptoms during sexual intercourse was found to have a patent foramen ovale (PFO). She was diagnosed with a cryptogenic transient ischemic attack (TIA) and underwent a successful catheter-based PFO closure. She had complete resolution of symptoms during both intercourse and physical activity. Cureus 2022-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9414168/ /pubmed/36043015 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27332 Text en Copyright © 2022, McCabe et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Stroke-Like Symptoms During Sexual Intercourse in a 25-Year-Old Female with a Patent Foramen Ovale
title_sort stroke-like symptoms during sexual intercourse in a 25-year-old female with a patent foramen ovale
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