Thrombus in Transit within a Patent Foramen Ovale: Gone with the Cough!

Journal: Journal Of Cardiovascular Ultrasound
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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.

Authors
Ji-hyun Kim, Yong-jin Kim