title: [Echocardiographic diagnosis of a thrombus trapped in a patent foramen ovale. Apropos of a case].
abstract: The authors report the case of a patient presenting with pulmonary embolism in which transthoracic echocardiography showed the presence of an intracardiac thrombus trapped in a patent foramen ovale; this was confirmed at surgery. It is rare to see this type of thrombus (which usually gives rise to paradoxical embolism) by transthoracic echocardiography. Previously, this used to be a postmortem diagnosis but the condition is often suspected nowadays when deep venous thrombosis and/or pulmonary embolism, an unexplained systemic embolism and a right-to-left interatrial shunt, are associated. However, the diagnosis can only be confirmed by the visualisation of the thrombus crossing the interatrial septum.
authors.affiliation: Service de cardiologie B, CHU Hôpital Sud, Amiens.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mirode
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tribouilloy
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Adam
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Poulain
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Lesbre
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000209:etiology*; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Diagnostic par échographie d'un thrombus enclavé dans un foramen ovale perméable. A propos d'un cas.