A stroke patient with supracristal ventricular septal defect accompanying suspected patent foramen ovale underwent transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography with agitated saline microbubble study, a positive trans-ventricular microbubble jet after Valsalva maneuver provocation was detected, indicating instantaneous transient paradoxical right-to-left shunt at late diastole might be the etiology of embolic events. ().
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