Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Korean Society of Echocardiography (한국심초음파학회)
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THROMBUS IN TRANSIT WITHIN A PATENT FORAMEN OVALE: GONE WITH THE COUGH!

  • Kim, Ji-Hyun (Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Yong-Jin (Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
  • Published : 2011.12.27
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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.

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