title: Thrombus in Transit within a Patent Foramen Ovale: Gone with the Cough!
abstract: Pulmonary embolism and concomitant right atrial thrombus entrapped in a patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a rare, unusual finding in echocardiography. The diagnosis of paradoxical embolism is usually presumptive when PFO is detected by echocardiography. We herein reported a case of a 53-year-old patient presenting with pulmonary embolism in which a thrombusin-transit through a PFO was found and disappeared during transesophageal echocardiography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Ji-Hyun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yong-Jin
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Kim