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To the Editor: The detection of a patent foramen ovale by transesophageal echocardiography in patients with arterial ischemic events is increasingly thought to be associated with a paradoxical embolism¹. Except for one report of an impending paradoxical embolism detected by transthoracic echocardiography,² all diagnoses of paradoxical embolism through a patent foramen ovale have been either presumptive³ or, as in the image by Silverman (Sept. 23 issue),⁴ postmortem. We report a diagnosis of paradoxical embolism made by means of transesophageal echocardiography.

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