Arteriovenous bubbles following cold water sport dives: relation to right-to-left shunting
| Autor: | Tibo Gerriets, B. Rosengarten, Kay Tetzlaff, C. Algermissen, N Struck, C. Schäfer, T. Liceni, Manfred Kaps, Gerrit Kopiske |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Decompression Diving Foramen secundum Persistent fetal circulation Decompression sickness Water Sport Internal medicine medicine Embolism Air Humans Vein business.industry Ultrasonography Doppler Middle Aged medicine.disease Decompression Sickness Surgery Shunting Cold Temperature medicine.anatomical_structure Cardiology Patent foramen ovale Female Neurology (clinical) business human activities |
| Zdroj: | Neurology. 55(11) |
| ISSN: | 0028-3878 |
| Popis: | Article abstract Neurologic injury subsequent to decompression from diving may be due to paradoxical arterialization of venous gas emboli. Of 40 divers who performed 53 open water dives after being tested for a patent foramen ovale (PFO), arterial gas emboli were detected in 7 of 13 dives, which resulted in venous bubbles. In five of these seven dives, there was evidence of a PFO by contrast transcranial Doppler sonography, indicating an increased risk of arterializing venous bubbles in divers with a PFO. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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