title: Death by patent foramen ovale in a soccer player.
abstract: A 34-year-old male patient was referred for primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock and was found to have embolic left coronary artery occlusion and subsegmental pulmonary artery emboli as a consequence of venous thrombosis to trauma to the thigh in the presence of a patent foramen ovale.
authors.affiliation: Swiss Cardiovascular Center Bern, Bern University Hospital, 3010 Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pilgrim
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Meier
authors.forename: Ahmed A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Khattab
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004562:Electrocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D054092:Foramen Ovale, Patent / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012916:Soccer; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000150:complications*