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Incidental finding of a left atrial thrombus during surgical management of a massive pulmonary embolism

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2020
A 58-year-old male presented with a hemodynamically significant pulmonary embolism. Computed tomography angiogram revealed a saddle embolus in the main pulmonary artery with extensive clot burden affecting all lobes and right heart strain.
Sarah Dunn, Nisha Dave, Yiliam F Rodriguez-Blanco, Oscar Aljure   +3 more
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Management of PFO in paradoxical embolic stroke with hemorrhagic conversion: a case report

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
A paradoxical embolism is defined as a venous thrombus that crosses through a heart defect, into the systemic circulation, usually through a patent foramen ovale. Treatment varies between closure of patent foramen ovale vs.
Michael Sabina, Aqeel Khanani, Joshua Tsai, Amanda Rigdon, Joseph Massaro   +4 more
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Thrombus entrapped by patent foramen ovale in a patient with pulmonary embolism: a case report [PDF]

Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2015
Thrombus-in-transit appears to increase the risk of mortality compared to pulmonary embolism alone and can require alteration in therapeutic plan. We present the case of a biatrial thromboembolus caught in transit across a patent foramen ovale diagnosed ...
Sang Beom Nam, Chan Mi Kim, Sung-Ah Cho, Sungchan Chung, Yon Hee Shim   +4 more
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Left ventricular pacing with a temporary pacemaker: Case report

Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, 2021
We report a case of temporary pacemaker lead malposition in the left ventricle crossing the interventricular septum (IVS). The majority of described cases occur due to a patent foramen ovale and are frequently incidental findings. A course across the IVS
Marta Tavares-Silva, Carla de Sousa, Vítor Araújo, Luís Adão, Gonçalo Pestana, Roberto Pinto, Filipe Macedo, Maria Júlia Maciel   +7 more
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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, Bovi, P, Calabrò, Rs, Casoni, F, Cerrato, P, Costa, P, Dalla Volta, G, Del Sette, M, Del Zotto, E, Delodovici, Ml, Gandolfo, C, Giossi, A, Grassi, Mario, Iacoviello, L, Italian Project on Stroke in Young Adults, Investigators, Lodigiani, C, M, Magoni, Musolino, R, Paciaroni, M, Padovani, A, Patella, R, Pezzini, A, Rasura, M, Rota, Ll, Spalloni, A, Toriello, A, Volonghi, I, Zini, A   +27 more
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Poland Anomaly and Atretic Cephalocele in the Same Child: Coincidence or Association?

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Poland Anomaly is a rare congenital disorder typically characterized by hypoplasia or agenesis of pectoral muscle with or without ipsilateral limb hypoplasia. The association of central nervous system malformation with Poland Anomaly has been rarely reported and includes craniofacial dysplasia, microcephaly, and Dandy‐Walker malformation ...
Alessandra Greta Grassi, Silvia Pontesilli, Laura Demelas, Francesca Vigliani, Massimo Agosti, Angelo Selicorni   +5 more
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Saddle Pulmonary Embolus Caught in Transit across a Patent Foramen Ovale

Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2019
Impending paradoxical embolism (IPE) also described in the literature as thrombus straddling a patent foramen ovale (PFO) or paradoxical embolus in transit is a rare condition when thrombus (originating mostly in deep veins of lower extremities ...
Aram Barbaryan, Stefania Bailuc, Travis Abicht, Sergey Barsamyan, Yonatan Gizaw, Aibek E. Mirrakhimov   +5 more
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A Case of Dextrotransposition of the Great Arteries Type I with Reversed Differential Cyanosis

American Journal of Perinatology Reports, 2019
Transposition of the great arteries type I is a severe congenital heart disease that induces serious cyanosis immediately after birth and death within 24 hours, unless proper treatment is administered.
Yuichi Morimoto, Noboru Inamura, Tukasa Takemura   +2 more
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Case Report: Residual Atrial Shunt Lesions in Aging Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: An Underestimated Risk of Stroke?

Frontiers 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, Matthias Schneider, Varius Dannenberg, Bernd Opgen-Rhein, Felix Berger, Felix Berger, Burkert Pieske, Burkert Pieske, Burkert Pieske, Burkert Pieske, Harald Gabriel, Leif-Hendrik Boldt, Leif-Hendrik Boldt   +12 more
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What general practitioners need to know about patent foramen ovale [PDF]

, 2014
A patent foramen ovale (PFO) consists of a hole between the right and left atriums of the heart that did not close the way it should after birth. Twenty five percent of the population have a PFO, but this usually does not cause problems, because the ...
Saliba, Mario
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