✦ LIBER ✦
Percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale guided by intracardiac echocardiography and performed through the transfemoral approach in the presence of previously placed inferior vena cava filters: A case series
✍ Scribed by Hany Awadalla; Fernando Boccalandro; Romeo A. Majano; Ali Moustapha; Joseph G. Salloum; Richard W. Smalling
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Volume
- 63
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
We present three patients with cryptogenic stroke who underwent transcatheter closure of a patent foramen ovale. All patients have had history of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism with placement of inferior vena caval filters. The patients were not initially considered suitable candidates for the procedure because of risk of dislodgment of previously implanted inferior vena cava filter. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2004;63:242–246. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.