Thromboembolus traversing a patent foramen ovale: resolution with anticoagulation.
This case report documents echocardiographically a thromboembolus actively traversing a patent foramen ovale in a 72-year-old man with a dilated cardiomyopathy and systemic lupus erythematosis complicated by chronic low-grade disseminated intravascular coagulation and multiple lower extremity deep venous thromboses. With intravenous heparin therapy, there was apparent resolution of this thromboembolus without clinical evidence of systemic embolization.
Cardiology Section, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699.
S W
SW
Schreiter
J H
JH
Phillips
D000368:Aged; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000150:complications; D004211:Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / Q000150:complications; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006493:Heparin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy*
D006493:Heparin