Clinical significance of fossa ovalis membrane aneurysm in adults with cardioembolic cerebral ischemia.
Fossa ovalis membrane aneurysm was diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography in 45 of 134 consecutive patients (34%) with embolic cerebrovascular ischemic events. A potential cardiovascular source of embolism, other than the fossa ovalis membrane aneurysm, was found in 91% of these patients (41 of 45).
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Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA.
Meisner
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Vijayaraman
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Gentilucci
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000150:complications*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000150:complications*