Dictionary Contents: P

On-Line Medical Dictionary / P ...
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Lesson of the Week: Paradoxical embolism in a young woman -- Edwards et al. 312 (7042): 1350 -- BMJ

... The commonest type of intracardiac defect is a patent foramen ovale, and this is the most commonly implicated defect in paradoxical embolus.2 Up to 30% of the population have a small probe patency of foramen ovale, but...
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