Rodríguez YD, Verdecia RME, Pérez FI, González BJC

Language: Spanish
References: 5
Page: 857-861
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ABSTRACT

The case report of a 71 year patient is presented who in 2008, after an episode of lung thromboembolism, was admitted in the Intensive Care Unit of the Community Comprehensive Hospital of Chacaltaya, Bolivia, he presented an ischemic embolic cerebrovascular disease in a paradoxical way, as consequence of a permeable oval foramen. Heparin of low molecular weight was indicated first as treatment and later, dicumarinics, with which the patient had a satisfactory clinical course.

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