title: Usefulness of transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis and surgical management of a paradoxical embolus extending through a patent foramen ovale.
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Plotkin
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Fox
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aranki
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Collard
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D019320:Embolism, Paradoxical / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans