Multiple Intracardiac and Paradoxical Thrombi Caused by a Thrombus Entrapped in a Patent Foramen Ovale.

Patent foramen ovale (PFO) usually represents a benign incidental finding. Occasionally, a PFO can open widely, resulting in paradoxical embolism, with potentially devastating consequence. Floating intracardiac thrombi and thrombus straddling a PFO are 2 extremely rare conditions associated with a dismal prognosis and encountered almost exclusively in the setting of pulmonary embolism (PE). We report the unusual case of a 47-year-old man with an unremarkable medical history who presented with a bilateral PE and multiple paradoxical and intracardiac floating thrombi in the setting of a thrombus entrapped in a PFO. Copyright © 2020 Canadian Cardiovascular Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Elena Izaga, Alejandro Gutiérrez-Barrios, Manuel Corrales, Livia Gheorghe, Germán Calle-Pérez. Multiple Intracardiac and Paradoxical Thrombi Caused by a Thrombus Entrapped in a Patent Foramen Ovale. The Canadian journal of cardiology. 2020 Dec;36(12):1978.e5-1978.e8

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