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.
Schreiter
S W
SW
Cardiology Section, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699.
Phillips
J H
JH
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