Surgical treatment of impending paradoxical embolism through patent foramen ovale.
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.
Caes
F L
FL
Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital of Ghent, Belgium.
Van Belleghem
Y V
YV
Missault
L H
LH
Coenye
K E
KE
Van Nooten
G J
GJ
D000328:Adult; D004617:Embolism / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D002542:Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D013924:Thrombophlebitis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*