Saddle Pulmonary Embolus Caught in Transit across a Patent Foramen Ovale

Figure 4

Photographs from surgical thrombectomy. Saddle pulmonary embolus was extracted from the pulmonary artery. The embolus that extended to all visualized segments of the branch pulmonary arteries was removed as well. The thrombus that was straddling the PFO was also removed en bloc. The PFO was surgically closed.