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CT pulmonary angiogram showing a large saddle embolus.
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In 02/2009, he developed acute shortness of breath and chest CT confirmed a large saddle pulmonary embolism (Figure 1).
MRI of the brain, 6 weeks after embolectomy, showing stable disease.
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Two weeks later, he returned home and at 6 weeks a repeat MRI showed no disease progression (Figure 2).