High incidence of acute and subacute ischaemic foci on brain MRI in patients with a diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism and confirmed patent foramen ovale.
Biomedical papers of the Medical Faculty of the University Palacky, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia（2023）
Abstract
The association between the presence of PFO and the occurrence of symptomatic or asymptomatic findings on brain MRI is a well-known fact (the issue of paradoxical embolism) but the high frequency of acute and subacute lesions on brain MRI in the group of patients with a diagnosis of acute PE is surprising.
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Key words
paradoxical embolism,patent foramen ovale,pulmonary embolism,stroke
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