I never thought it could happen to me, but people need to take their health seriously and get things checked out if there’s something they aren’t happy about.” ...

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

​A Co Antrim woman’s life changed completely in 2023 after battling through two strokes aged just 31. Ellis Dawson, from Newtownabbey, who works as cabin crew had her first stroke, a TIA (transient ...

The aim of the PFO‐ACCESS (Augmenting Communications for Medical Care or Closure in the Evaluation of Stroke Patients With Cardiac Shunts) program (which included implementation of the Viz.ai ...

Some scientific studies have suggested a link between migraine with aura and a patent foramen ovale (PFO), a relatively common congenital heart defect. With this postulated link, controversy arose ...

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 ...

How May PFO Closure Affect Migraine? If one accepts that a PFO plays a pivotal role in the course of a migraine attack, the following scenarios are possible: given that the concept of migraine is ...