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http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2011.19.4.196

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)
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Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging / v.19, no.4, 2011 , pp. 196-198 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Pulmonary embolism; Thrombus in transit; Patent foramen ovale;
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