Detection of Patent Foramen Ovale by Contrast Transesophageal Echocardiography

Incidence and Size of Patent Foramen Ovale During the First 10 Decades of Life: An Autopsy Study of 965 Normal Hearts

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Prevalence of right-to-left atrial shunting in a healthy population: detection by Valsalva maneuver contrast echocardiography

John J. Lynch, Gregory H. Schuchard, Charles M. Gross et al. · The American Journal of Cardiology · 1984 · 317 citations

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Paradoxical Embolism

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Detection and exclusion of interatrial shunts by two-dimensional echocardiography and peripheral venous injection.

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Medicine, Cardiology, Radiology +17

Paradoxical embolism

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