Peripheral ischemia caused by paradoxical embolization: An underestimated problem?

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 200-206

  Hugl, Beate ^a   Klein Weigel, Peter ^b   Posch, Lydia ^a   Greiner, Andreas ^a   Fraedrich, Gustav ^a  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Chirurgie Innsbruck   (Austria)

^b German Red Cross Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Paradoxical embolism; Patent foramen ovale; Peripheral ischemia

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PERIPHERAL ISCHEMIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; THROMBECTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 18744385508     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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