Acute lethal stroke affecting all brain-supplying cerebral arteries due to paradoxical embolism through a patent foramen ovale.
Heckmann
J G
JG
Departments of Neurology and Neuroradiology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Handschu
R
R
Huk
W
W
Neundörfer
B
B
D000328:Adult; D001488:Basilar Artery; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002536:Cerebral Arteries; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D020766:Intracranial Embolism / Q000150:complications*; D020767:Intracranial Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology*