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Surgical treatment of high-risk pulmonary embolism associated with paradoxical embolism, complicated by acute cerebrovascular accident

open access: yesВестник хирургии имени И.И. Грекова, 2023
The article presents a case of successful surgical treatment of pulmonary embolism in a patient with a high risk of early cardiac death on the background of paradoxical embolism complicated by acute cerebrovascular accident.
A. B. Gamzaev   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Simultaneous Multifocal Paradoxical Embolism in an Elderly Patient with Patent Foramen Ovale: A Case Report

open access: yesCureus, 2020
About one-third of ischemic strokes may be associated with a patent foramen ovale (PFO). This article presents an unusual case of a 68-year-old woman with simultaneous paradoxical thrombo-embolization to different systemic sites.
H. Lak, Taha Ahmed, R. Nair, A. Maroo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impending Paradoxical Embolism [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Internal Medicine, 1998
The advent of echocardiography has led to the more frequent discovery of impending paradoxical embolism. Paradoxical embolism should be considered whenever there is an arterial embolism from an unidentified source in the presence of a concomitant venous thromboembolic phenomenon.
R R, Meacham   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Case Report: Residual Atrial Shunt Lesions in Aging Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: An Underestimated Risk of Stroke?

open access: yesFrontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
We report two cases of paradoxical cerebral embolism in adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) with residual atrial shunt lesions, a 59 year-old male patient with partial detachment of a surgical ASD closure patch, and a 57 year-old male patient ...
Matthias Schneider   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Young patient`s secondary prevention in ischemic stroke with the percutaneous closure of the patent foramen ovale and postoperative repermeabilisation – case report [PDF]

open access: yesRomanian Journal of Neurology, 2021
Introduction. Cryptogenic stroke represents 25% of all cases. Paradoxical embolism is a common case in people under 45 years old who have patent foramen ovale. Case presentation.
Teodor-Valentin Stanciu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impending paradoxical embolism [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Heart Journal, 2007
A 52-year-old woman presented at the emergency department with deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism (PE). Transthoracic echocardiography revealed right ventricular dysfunction and disclosed an echogenic serpentine mass in all four heart …
Peter, Verhamme   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

What are the odds - Concurrent lower extremity venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, septal embolic myocardial infarction and patent foramen ovale

open access: yesIHJ Cardiovascular Case Reports, 2019
Cerebral ischemic events are more commonly associated with PFOs than non-cerebral paradoxical systemic events, incidence of latter being only around 5–10% of all paradoxical embolisms.
Karomibal Mejia   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

MRI of the lung (3/3)-current applications and future perspectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
BACKGROUND: MRI of the lung is recommended in a number of clinical indications. Having a non-radiation alternative is particularly attractive in children and young subjects, or pregnant women.
A Hebestreit   +96 more
core   +1 more source

Playing games with a thrombus: a dangerous match. Paradoxical embolism from a huge central venous cathether thrombus: a case report

open access: yesCardiovascular Ultrasound, 2010
Thromboembolism is a major cause of death in cancer patients. The association between paraneoplastic hypercoagulability of oncological patients and long-term central venous catheters (CVC) may result in CVC associated thrombosis.
Mariana Sylvie   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Increased prevalence of potential right-to-left shunting in children with sickle cell anaemia and stroke [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
'Paradoxical' embolization via intracardiac or intrapulmonary right-to-left shunts (RLS) is an established cause of stroke. Hypercoagulable states and increased right heart pressure, which both occur in sickle cell anaemia (SCA), predispose to ...
Dlamini, N   +19 more
core   +1 more source

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