Paradoxical emboli through the patent foramen ovale as the suspected cause of myocardial and renal infarction in a 48-year-old woman

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1010-1012

  Garachemani, Ali ^b   Eshtehardi, Parham ^a   Meier, Bernhard ^a  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Sonnenhof Heart Center   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amplatzer device; Interventional cardiology; Myocardial infarction; Patent foramen ovale; Percutaneous closure; Renal infarction

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AKINESIA; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY INFARCTION; LABORATORY TEST; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; INFARCTION; KIDNEY; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38049014401     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21214     Document Type: Article

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