1. Deep Venous Thrombosis Before Patent Foramen Ovale Closure
Gianluca Rigatelli, MD, Loris Roncon, MD, Gabriele Braggion, MD, Massimo Giordan, MD, Paolo Cardaioli, MD, Pietro Zonzin, MD, Maurizio Chinaglia, MD 
The American Journal of Medicine 
Volume 119, Issue 1, Pages (January 2006)
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2. Figure
(A) Inferior vena cava angiography in patient asymptomatic for DVT during transcatheter PFO closure. (B) The patient was treated with a vena cava filter rather than a PFO occluder device to avoid the catastrophic consequences (pulmonary embolism, massive stroke) of the dislocation of thrombus by large sheaths.
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