Arteriovenous bubbles following cold water sport dives: relation to right-to-left shunting.
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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.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Neurology
دوره 55 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000