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Comments on "Atrial septal aneurysm and spontaneous echo contrast: An association with higher embolic risk?"
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum 695 011, India
Received 11 July 2006; accepted after revision 19 August 2006.
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We read with interest the scenario of a 53-year-old man with acute ischemic stroke.1 Transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) showed a large atrial septal aneurysm (ASA) with spontaneous echo contrast (SEC) inside but