Warning regarding thrombosis-in-transit across the patent foramen ovale associated with pulmonary embolism: ultrasonographic imaging analysis.
Kentaro MorinagaJun OdaJun YamashitaHiroki NakanoHitoshi OginoSatoshi TakahashiPublished in: Acute medicine & surgery (2020)
Contrast-enhanced CT is useful for diagnosing Pulmonaly embolism (PE) but not for foramen ovale thrombi. Therefore, cardiac ultrasonographic observation of the atrial septum is important to avoid overlooking foramen ovale thrombi.
Keyphrases
- pulmonary embolism
- contrast enhanced
- diffusion weighted
- magnetic resonance imaging
- computed tomography
- magnetic resonance
- inferior vena cava
- diffusion weighted imaging
- dual energy
- high resolution
- left ventricular
- optic nerve
- heart failure
- left atrial
- image quality
- positron emission tomography
- fluorescence imaging
- mass spectrometry
- photodynamic therapy