Robinson Poffo et al. Paola Keese Montanhesi Renato Bastos Pope Alisson Parrilha Toschi Marcelo Campos Vieira
Female patient, 31 years old, with a history of ischemic stroke 7 years before, was referred for treatment of Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO). She only had a complaint of migraine with aura, with no focal neurological abnormalities.
On July 2, 2015, she was submitted to an uneventful percutaneous PFO occlusion using a Cardia IntraseptTM prosthesis (CARDIA, Inc., Burnsville, MN, USA). Intraoperative three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography confirmed correct prosthesis positioning and absence of residual shunt through the bubble test. Current guidelines of the two most important international societies of echocardiography, the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and the American Society of Echocardiography, determine that the three-dimensional echocardiography is the echocardiographic modality of choice for monitoring, following and guiding percutaneous procedures performed in hemodynamics and hybrid rooms, as in this case.
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