December 1, 1999ThoraxOpen Access

Surgery and respiratory muscles

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11-year-old boy with cystic fibrosis, prior totally implantable venous access device insertion, who suffered…

Design

Case_report

Authors

GDGordon B. DrummondUK Health Forum NSN. M. SiafakasUniversity of Crete IMIoanna MitrouskaUniversity Hospital of Heraklion

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May support PFO closure in select pediatric paradoxical embolism cases; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.

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Population

11-year-old boy with cystic fibrosis, prior totally implantable venous access device (Port-a-Cath) insertion, who suffered a stroke with right-sided weakness and was found to have a thrombus attached to the device tip and a patent foramen ovale.

Intervention

Initial anticoagulation followed by closure of the patent foramen ovale using a septal occlusion device introduced via cardiac catheter.

Outcome

Resolution of neurological signs and freedom from further thromboembolic episodes.

This case highlights the possibility of paradoxical embolism through a patent foramen ovale originating from a thrombus on a totally implantable venous access device.

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Drummond et al. (1999) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a891558d5f4e697bb1320b1 https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.54.12.1140

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Surgery and respiratory muscles

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Surgery and respiratory muscles

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