The ultimate proof of paradoxical embolism and a percutaneous solution

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 837-840

  Osten, Mark D ^a   Horlick, Eric M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adult cath intervention; Adult congenital heart disease; Cardiac catheterization; Patent foramen ovale; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER COMPLICATION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLIP; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; DEVICE REMOVAL; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FOREIGN BODY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; INDWELLING CATHETER; INSTRUMENTATION; PATHOLOGY; PULMONARY VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DEVICE REMOVAL; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HEART ATRIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PULMONARY VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 58849085119     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21736     Document Type: Article

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