Local DRLs and automated risk estimation in paediatric interventional cardiology [PDF]
, 2019 Introduction : Cardiac catheterization procedures result in high radiation doses and often multiple procedures are necessary for congenital heart disease patients. However, diagnostic reference levels (DRL) remain scarce.
Bacher, Klaus +5 more
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Giant aneurysm of the atrial septum associated with premature closure of foramen ovale [PDF]
, 2005 Premature closure or restriction of foramen ovale (PCFO) is a rare congenital anomaly that can lead to a wide spectrum of cardiac malformations. This spectrum of secondary malformations appears to depend on the gestational timing of closure of the ...
Constantinos Chrysostomou +14 more
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Paradoxical Embolism due to Persistent Foramen Ovale; a Case Report
Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2016 The mean percentage of cryptogenic strokes among ischemic strokes is 31%, of which one-third may be associated with patent foramen ovale. The foramen ovale is required for blood flow through the fetal atrial septum. It is formed as of the fourth week ...
Dormar David Barrios +4 more
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Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, 2020 A 26-year-old patient with mirror-image dextrocardia and situs inversus experienced a transient ischemic attack. We suspected that a patent foramen ovale was the reason.
Xiaofei Jiang, Heng Zhang, Mingyang Qian
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Active paradoxical and pulmonary emboli in a first trimester pregnancy
Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2022 Capturing a paradoxical embolism in real-time has been a challenge in recent literature. We present the unique case of a 33-year-old, G3P2 female at 8 weeks gestation presenting with dyspnea. An active thrombus through an undiagnosed patent foramen ovale
Nicholas Suraci +3 more
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Primary stroke in a woman with sickle cell anemia responsive to hydroxyurea therapy. [PDF]
, 2014 The most common cause of stroke in children with sickle cell anemia is infarction due to ischemia. In adults, however, stroke is most commonly hemorrhagic in nature. Other causes of stroke in patients with sickle cell disease are very rare. In this short
Ballas, Samir K. +2 more
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Patent foramen ovale and stroke: prognosis and treatment in young adults. [PDF]
, 2005 A patent foramen ovale (PFO) is found with increased frequency in patients with stroke of undetermined origin but the significance and therapeutic implications of this observation remain unclear.
Cramer, Steven C
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Interaction between proatherosclerotic factors and right-to-left shunt on the risk of cryptogenic stroke: the Italian Project on Stroke in Young Adults. [PDF]
, 2012 Objective: To explore the interaction effects between cardiac interatrial right-to-left shunt (RLS) and proatherosclerotic factors on the risk of brain ischaemia. Design: Multicentre Italian caseecontrol study. Setting: University hospitals. Participants:
A, Adami +27 more
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Patent foramen ovale and migraine in ischemic stroke patients: incidence, pathogenetic interrelation and the effects of endovascular closure [PDF]
Клиническая практикаBACKGROUND: Migraine is a chronic neurovascular disease with high incidence rate and medical-social significance. Despite more than half a century of studying the disease, the pathogenesis of migraine is not yet completely clear.
Anastasia V. Belopasova +2 more
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Young stroke patient with patent foramen ovale and intracranial stenosis—a case report
SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2023 The prevalence of patent foramen ovale is approximately 20% in the global population. In patients under the age of 55 years, it has been proven as a cause of acute ischemic embolic stroke of otherwise undetermined source.
Domagoj Šunde +5 more
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