title: Surgical treatment of impending paradoxical embolism through patent foramen ovale.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital of Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: F L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Caes
authors.forename: Y V
authors.initials: YV
authors.lastname: Van Belleghem
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Missault
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Coenye
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Van Nooten
mesh_terms: 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*