Cardiology > PCI Residual Shunt Size Matters After PFO Closure — Incomplete seal was not uncommon in a cohort study. by Nicole Lou, Staff Writer, MedPage Today May 11, 2020 • 3 min read ...

Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is the most common congenital heart abnormality of fetal origin and is present in approximately ∼25% of the worldwide adult population. PFO is the consequence of ...

In patients with migraine who undergo transcatheter closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO), the presence of aura and of residual right-to-left shunt appear to influence the amount of migraine benefits, ...

The efficacy of closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) ... (18 to 45 years or 46 to 59 years), sex, and PFO shunt size (small or moderate-to-large).

A small, retrospective analysis of patients who underwent PFO closure for cryptogenic stroke suggests that migraine relief is more common in patients with migraine with aura than without aura, but ...

In scuba divers with large patent foramen ovale (PFO), transcatheter closure seems to prevent decompression sickness (DCS), a new study suggests. “According to our data, PFO closure is recommended in ...

SAN DIEGO — New research indicates that transcranial Doppler is superior to transesophageal echocardiography for the detection of patent foramen ovale. Patients with PFO are at increased risk ...

Since the first report of an improvement in migraine after intracardiac shunt closure in 2000, [5] more than a dozen additional reports have been published, all in support of a PFO–migraine ...

The persistently patent foramen ovale has been implicated in a variety of neurologic and embolic events, including transient ischemic attacks and stroke, decompression illness in divers, platypnea ...

Patent foramen ovale (PFO) may be associated with migraine, especially migraine with aura (MA), when the PFO is permanent right-left shunt (RLS), large RLS, and large-size PFO, a recent study found.

Between 20 and 30% of ischemic strokes are cryptogenic. 1 A strong association between cryptogenic strokes and the presence of patent foramen ovale (PFO) suggests that paradoxical embolism through ...