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Enlarged right ventricle and ICD electrode (arrow) with thrombi. Transthoracic echocardiogram, parasternal short axis view. RV - right ventricle, LV - left ventricle.
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ICD electrode (Figure 1). In order to determine a mechanism of systemic thromboembolism in a patient with right heart thrombi transoesophageal echocardiography was performed, which revealed a shunt (Figure 2) through the patent foramen ovale (PFO).
Colour Doppler imaging of the PFO shunt (arrow). Transoesophageal echocardiogram. LA - left atrium, RA - right atrium, Ao - aorta.
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ICD electrode (Figure 1). In order to determine a mechanism of systemic thromboembolism in a patient with right heart thrombi transoesophageal echocardiography was performed, which revealed a shunt (Figure 2) through the patent foramen ovale (PFO).
The PFO successfully closed with an Amplatzer Septal Occluder (arrow). Transoesophageal echocardiogram. RA - right atrium, RV - right ventricle, LA - left atrium.
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Patent foramen ovale was successfully closed by a 25 mm Amplatzer septal occluder (Figures 3 and 4).
The Amplatzer septal occluder (single arrow) and ICD electrode (double arrow) with thrombi. Transthoracic echocardiogram, substernal view. RA - right atrium, RV - right ventricle, Ao - aorta.
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Patent foramen ovale was successfully closed by a 25 mm Amplatzer septal occluder (Figures 3 and 4).