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Surgical treatment of impending paradoxical embolism through patent foramen ovale
F L Caes1, Y V Van Belleghem, L H Missault
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital of Ghent, Belgium.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 1, 1995
Abstract:
We describe the case of a patient with deep venous thrombosis who had cerebral and extremity paradoxical emboli and an intracardiac thrombus crossing a patent foramen ovale identified by echocardiography. He was treated successfully with immediate intracardiac embolectomy and closure of the patent foramen ovale.