Open AccessWhen the Unborn Meets Messrs’ Bolam and Bolitho
Author(s) -
Ashok Garg,
Consultant,
Deepak Agrawal
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of medicine and healthcare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2754-4516
DOI - 10.47363/jmhc/2021(3)149
Subject(s) - scrutiny , subject (documents) , law , political science , specialty , medicine , psychology , forensic engineering , psychiatry , engineering , library science , computer science
A Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) is not a true deficiency of atrial septal tissue but rather a potential space or separation between the septum primum and septum secundum located in the anterosuperior portion of the atrial septum. It is not considered a true Atrial Septal Defect (ASD), because no structural deficiency of the atrial septal tissue is present. We are describing a unique case of recurrent transient attacks followed by stroke associated with finding of a large stretched PFO on echocardiography.