Cerebral embolism with interventional closure of symptomatic patent foramen ovale: An MRI-based study using diffusion-weighted imaging
Autor: | H. H. Schild, A. Gockel, Horst Urbach, G. Bauriedel, C. Stüßer, B. Simon, U. Dorenbeck, Dirk Skowasch |
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Rok vydání: | 2007 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male Cardiac Catheterization medicine.medical_specialty Heart Septal Defects Atrial White matter Paradoxical embolism Cerebral embolism Internal medicine medicine Humans Cardiac Surgical Procedures Stroke Aged Heart septal defect medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Magnetic resonance imaging Middle Aged medicine.disease Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging medicine.anatomical_structure Intracranial Embolism Neurology Patent foramen ovale Cardiology Neurology (clinical) Radiology business Diffusion MRI |
Zdroj: | European Journal of Neurology. 14:451-454 |
ISSN: | 1468-1331 1351-5101 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2007.01689.x |
Popis: | Paradoxical embolism via patent foramen ovale (PFO) is an important cause of stroke, especially in younger patients. Transcatheter PFO closure is considered to bear a low risk and to be technically feasable with a high primary success rate. There are no data for the rate of procedure-associated silent embolic events. The present study sought to analyze the total number of cerebral ischemic complications with interventional PFO closure. Thirty-five symptomatic PFO patients (15 male, 26-71 years) with cerebral infarctions proven by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were examined by diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) before and after PFO closure. In the MRI examinations following the intervention, new microembolic lesions were found in three of 35 (8.6%) patients. The lesions were located in the right and left thalamus and the left frontoparietal white matter respectively. Two of three infarcts were clinically inapparent, whereas the third patient suffered from a transient right-sided hemihypaesthesia for 12 h. If the prevention of recurrent cerebrovascular events associated with the presence of PFO is necessary, a low frequency of closure associated silent cerebral embolisms was documented after interventional PFO closure. The rate of microembolic events with neurological deficit was 1/35 (approximately 2.8%). |
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