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Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, the University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0648, USA.
An obese patient with cholelithiasis and acute cholecystitis was scheduled for an emergency laparoscopic cholecystectomy. On preoperative workup, a 5-year-old echocardiogram showed a large patent foramen ovale (PFO) with a right-to-left shunt that was open at rest. Noting both the benefits of laparoscopic surgery and the substantial incidence of PFO in the general population (10% to 30%), the attending and consulting surgeons reasoned that the benefits of laparoscopy greatly exceeded an immeasurably small risk of paradoxical emboli.
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