Post-Operative Multiple Thrombosis Associated with Patent Foramen Ovale: Embolic Stroke, Right Atrial Thrombi, Pulmonary Embolism and Deep Vein Thrombosis

J Cardiovasc Ultrasound. 2015 Sep;23(3):177-80. doi: 10.4250/jcu.2015.23.3.177. Epub 2015 Sep 24.

Abstract

Patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty frequently develop post-operative complication, such as deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism. However, it is not common coexisting deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary thromboembolisms, right atrial thrombus and acute cerebral infarction raised by thrombus through patent foramen ovale. We reported the patient who had multiple thrombi which were accompanied with a cryptogenic ischemic stroke and associated with patent foramen ovale after operation.

Keywords: Deep vein thrombosis; Patent foramen ovale; Pulmonary thromboembolism.

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