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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 6/2014

01-06-2014 | Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine

Paradoxical massive pulmonary embolism with a straddling thrombus across a patent foramen ovale

Authors: Roshen Mathew, Winnie E. Roy

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 6/2014

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A 52-year-old male patient with no significant past history presented with dyspnea on exertion and some chest tightness while shoveling snow. He had some sinus tachycardia. His oxygen saturations were 100 % on 2-l nasal cannula. His EKG showed new right bundle bunch block and T wave inversions in inferior leads. …
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Metadata
Title
Paradoxical massive pulmonary embolism with a straddling thrombus across a patent foramen ovale
Authors
Roshen Mathew
Winnie E. Roy
Publication date
01-06-2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 6/2014
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-014-3283-y

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