Affiliation:
1. Department of Structural Heart Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University , No. 277 Yanta West Road, Xi’an 710068 , China
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Myocardial infarction (MI) caused by patent foramen ovale (PFO)-based paradoxical embolism is rare, and there are few case reports in the literature.
Case summary
Here, we report a case of MI in which optical coherence tomography revealed in situ thrombi in the PFO channel.
Discussion
In addition to paradoxical embolism, in situ thrombus may also be one of the pathogenic mechanisms of PFO in patients with MI.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)