Silent Cerebral Infarcts in Patients With Pulmonary Embolism and a Patent Foramen Ovale | Zendy

Marie-Rose Clergeau | Zendy; M. Hamon | Zendy; Rémy Morello | Zendy; Éric Saloux | Zendy; Fausto Viader | Zendy; Martial Hamon | Zendy

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Silent Cerebral Infarcts in Patients With Pulmonary Embolism and a Patent Foramen Ovale

Author(s) -

Marie-Rose Clergeau,

M. Hamon,

Rémy Morello,

Éric Saloux,

Fausto Viader,

Martial Hamon

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.109.559898

Subject(s) - medicine , patent foramen ovale , pulmonary embolism , paradoxical embolism , cardiology , embolism , foramen secundum , cerebral infarction , radiology , complication , stroke (engine) , incidence (geometry) , ischemia , migraine , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , optics

Pulmonary embolism is thought to be associated with a small but definite risk of paradoxical embolism in patients with a patent foramen ovale (PFO). Although neurological complications are infrequent, the incidence of clinically silent brain infarction is unknown. We assessed the rate of clinically apparent and silent cerebral embolism in patients with pulmonary embolism in relation to the presence or not of a PFO.

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