Thrombus in Transit within a Patent Foramen Ovale: Gone with the Cough!.
10.4250/jcu.2011.19.4.196
- Author:
Ji Hyun KIM
1
;
Yong Jin KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. kimdamas@snu.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Pulmonary embolism;
Thrombus in transit;
Patent foramen ovale
- MeSH:
Echocardiography;
Echocardiography, Transesophageal;
Embolism, Paradoxical;
Foramen Ovale, Patent;
Humans;
Middle Aged;
Pulmonary Embolism;
Thrombosis
- From:Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound
2011;19(4):196-198
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
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.
