Embolismo paradójico: ¿una entidad infrecuente o poco diagnosticada?

Although it is theoretically more frequent in cerebrovascular accidents, paradoxical embolism is a probably underdiagnosed cause of acute arterial ischaemia. A high degree of clinical suspicion, together with the reasonable utilisation of screening techniques, would make it possible to achieve a greater number of diagnoses that would help to gain a deeper understanding of the natural history of VTED and the importance of patent foramen ovale as a condition that makes it worse.