Boukhris Marouane, Masson Jean-Bernard, Potvin Jeannot
Division of Cardiology, Centre Hospitalier de L'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada.
J Saudi Heart Assoc. 2021 Feb 3;33(2):135-137. doi: 10.37616/2212-5043.1249. eCollection 2021.
We report the case of a 39-year-old woman who presented with cryptogenic stroke. Conventional and contrast echocardiography modalities noticed a large Eustachian valve (EV) but failed to identify any right-to-left shunt. Conversely, contrast-transcranial Doppler revealed a grade 3 right-to-left shunt. Contrast echocardiography was repeated with bubble injections through both an upper extremity and a femoral vein, 10 min apart from each other. While no shunt was observed following upper extremity injection, >20 bubbles crossed the inter-atrial septum when contrast was injected via femoral vein confirming the diagnosis of patent foramen ovale.
我们报告了一例39岁患有隐源性卒中的女性病例。常规及经对比剂增强的超声心动图检查发现一个大的欧氏瓣(EV),但未发现任何右向左分流。相反,经颅多普勒对比剂增强检查显示有3级右向左分流。通过上肢和股静脉分别间隔10分钟注射微泡,重复进行经对比剂增强的超声心动图检查。上肢注射后未观察到分流,但经股静脉注射对比剂时,有超过20个微泡穿过房间隔,从而确诊为卵圆孔未闭。