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Successful surgical treatment of impending paradoxical embolism with pulmonary embolism and myocardial infarction

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Background Paradoxical embolism is a rare cause of acute arterial occlusion. This phenomenon arises when embolic material travels from the venous system crosses an abnormal shunt such as patent foramen ovale, atrial septal defects, ventricular septal ...
Yong Liu, Zhiyun Yang, Xinxin Sun, Mei Yang, Tao Zhang, Ruilin Li, Ying Wei, Hao Cao   +7 more
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Paradoxical embolism via patent foramen ovale induced by deep venous thrombosis and acute pulmonary embolism [PDF]

Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques
A 32-year-old man presented with acute pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, and lower extremity arterial ischemia after prolonged driving. He underwent emergency thrombolysis, thrombectomy, and inferior vena cava filter placement, and potential ...
Yanan Liu, PhD, Yiyun Xie, PhD, Zhichao Lai, PhD, Wei Ye, PhD, Jiang Shao, MD, Bao Liu, PhD   +5 more
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Acute Myocardial Infarction Secondary to Paradoxical Embolism

European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2020
Patent foramen ovale is a risk factor for systemic embolic events such as cryptogenic stroke. Far less commonly, patent foramen ovale is associated with non-cerebral systemic embolic events.
Abdullah R Alenezi, Muath Alanbaei, Islam Abouelenein   +2 more
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Paradoxical carbon dioxide embolism during laparoscopic surgery without intracardiac right-to-left shunt: two case reports and a brief review of the literature

Journal of International Medical Research, 2020
We herein report two cases of paradoxical carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) embolism during laparoscopic nephrectomy and hepatic left lateral lobectomy without evidence of a right-to-left shunt or obvious rupture of blood vessels.
Wenting Hou, Jing Zhong, Bo Pan, Jiapeng Huang, Biyu Wang, Zhirong Sun, Changhong Miao   +6 more
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Impending Paradoxical Embolism [PDF]

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2019
Impending paradoxical embolism (IPDE) is the presence of a thrombus in the patent foramen ovale. Usually, IPDE is diagnosed by echocardiography or a multislice computed tomography scan and is performed during the evaluation of a patient presenting with suspected pulmonary embolism.
Xiaojing Ma, Chunxia Wu, Laichun Song, Hongping Yang, Yafeng He, Juan Xia   +5 more
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Traversing boundaries: thrombus in transit with paradoxical embolism [PDF]

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2016
A 72-year-old male is diagnosed with paradoxical embolus after he presented with concurrent deep vein thrombosis, stroke, and multiple arterial emboli in the presence of a patent foramen ovale (PFO). Paradoxical embolus requires the passage of a thrombus
Varun Miriyala, Muhammad Umer Awan, Kirmanj Faraj, Bipinpreet Nagra   +3 more
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Impending Paradoxical Embolism

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2020
Paul Philipp Heinisch, Stefan Stortecky
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Cerebral infarction by paradoxical gas embolism detected after laparoscopic partial hepatectomy with an insufflation management system: a case report

Surgery Case Reports, 2023
Background Laparoscopic surgery has reduced surgical morbidity and postoperative duration of hospital stay. Gas embolism is commonly known as a risk factor for all laparoscopic procedures.
K. Shimizu, M. Usuda, Y. Kakizaki, T. Narita, O. Suzuki, Kengo Fukuoka   +5 more
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Stroke and Respiratory Failure: Mind the Shunt!

European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2021
When stroke patients present with respiratory failure, the first thought that clinicians have is that it is probably related to aspiration pneumonia. However, other causes should be considered, such as intracardiac or intrapulmonary shunts, that could ...
Diana Mano, Patrícia Campos, Bruno Vale, Alexandre Pinto   +3 more
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Paradoxical venous air embolism detected with point-of-care ultrasound: a case report

The Ultrasound Journal, 2022
Venous air embolism (VAE) is an uncommon event consistent in the entrainment of air from any communication between the environment and the venous vasculature that could occur during central venous catheter (CVC) manipulation, and might trigger ...
Héctor Andrés Ruiz Ávila, Hans Fred García–Araque, Estivalis Acosta-Gutiérrez   +2 more
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