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Femoral versus antecubital vein contrast injection
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Dear Sir,
In their interesting narrative review about non-transpulmonary contrast echocardiography,1 Soliman et al. devoted a section to discuss the greater sensitivity of venous femoral injection of contrast for the detection of patent foramen ovale (PFO) as compared with venous brachial injection. This has been explained by intraatrial flow