Abstract

RODRIGUEZ YERO, Daymarelis; VERDECIA ROSES, Miguel Ernesto; PEREZ FUENTES, Iván  and  GONZALEZ BLANCO, Juan Carlos. Lung thromboembolism and embolic ischemic cerebrovascular disease in a Bolivian aged man. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.6, pp.857-861. ISSN 1029-3019.

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

Keywords : elderly; embolic ischemic cerebrovascular disease; permeable oval foramen; low molecular weight heparin; dicumarinics.

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