%0 Journal Article
%T Pediatric Acute Paradoxical Cerebral Embolism with Pulmonary Embolism Caused by Extremely Small Patent Foramen Ovale
%A Akihiro Noda
%A Akira Utagawa
%A Atsushi Sakurai
%A Junko Yamaguchi
%A Kosaku Kinoshita
%J Archive of "Open Medicine".
%D 2019
%R 10.1515/med-2019-0002
%X Herein, we report a pediatric case of acute paradoxical cerebral embolism complicated by serious acute pulmonary embolism that was caused by an extremely small patent foramen ovale (PFO). The patient had no medical history suggestive of any other reason
%K Pediatric pulmonary embolism
%K Patent foramen ovale (PFO)
%K Paradoxical cerebral embolism
%K Diameter of PFO
%K Right-to-left shunt
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6310914/