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Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
The peer-reviewed journal of Baylor Scott & White Health
Volume 31, 2018 - Issue 3
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A young woman with a symptomatic patent foramen ovale: Natasha's fascinating story

, MD
Pages 386-387 | Received 12 Apr 2018, Accepted 16 Apr 2018, Published online: 17 May 2018
 

ABSTRACT

A young Amerasian woman developed transient ischemic attacks related to a patent foramen ovale. Her background personal story, involving being willed from her dying grandmother to a US photographer and attempting to find her serviceman father, has led to a book and a TED talk.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The author thanks Natasha for permission to relate her moving personal history.

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