Marco R. Di Tullio; Peter C. Block, M.D., F.A.C.C. However, the risk of first-ever stroke in asymptomatic subjects with PFO in the general population has not been clearly established. This ...

Lars Kellert in issue 31–32/2017 In their article on juvenile stroke, the authors also comment on indication for interventional closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) (1). On the basis of a US ...

PFO size gradually increases from controls to patients with a history of stroke to migraineurs ... after percutaneous PFO closure; this benefit was observed in divers, patients with previous ...

report a certain amount of improvement after PFO closure. Indeed, the same factors influencing the risk of paradoxical embolism are likely to have a role in the pathogenesis of migraine and ...

This defect is actually an incomplete closure of the atrial wall that results in a flap or valve-like opening in the atrial wall. A PFO is present in everyone ... eyes or kidneys, causing a stroke. A ...

The research was designed to determine the PFO closure rate, procedure-related complications, the recurrence of AF, and stroke/TIA events. Patients who underwent AS cryoablation had a ...

The recently approved device simplifies operator manipulations by loading a balloon and filter onto the stent.

In the PFO closure group, medication treatment (platelet aggregation inhibitors) was also given; and durations of treatment differed (3). The phrase “to prevent another stroke” is incorrect.