Acute leriche syndrome due to paradoxical embolism.
Paradoxical embolism, describing the passage of venous or right-sided cardiac thrombus into the arterial or systemic circulation through patent foramen ovale, is an uncommon cause of acute arterial occlusion. Here, we report acute Leriche syndrome in a young woman attributable to paradoxical embolism. Ischaemia, patent foramen ovale, and venous thrombosis were the triad of evidence for paradoxical embolism.
Gouëffic
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Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Nantes, 44093 Nantes, France. yann.goueffic@chu-nantes.fr
Piffeteau
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Patra
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D019320:Embolism, Paradoxical / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007925:Leriche Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed