PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Margaret M Samyn
AU  - Todd M Gudausky
AU  - Joshua R Kovach
AU  - Ronald K Woods
TI  - Cardiac arrest in a healthy child due to paradoxical embolus across a previously unrecognised sinus venosus defect
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2019-230135
DP  - 2019 Dec 01
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - e230135
VI  - 12
IP  - 12
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/12/12/e230135.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/12/12/e230135.full
SO  - BMJ Case Reports2019 Dec 01; 12
AB  - A previously healthy, preadolescent female suffered an unwitnessed cardiac arrest with prompt return of circulation following bystander initiated resuscitation. Workup demonstrated the cause of her cardiac arrest to be distal left anterior descending coronary artery occlusion with small apical left ventricular transmural myocardial infarction, from a paradoxical embolus traversing a previously undiagnosed large sinus venous defect. This case demonstrates the value of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging may bring to the diagnosis of the pathophysiology leading to cardiac arrest.