Surgical patent foramen ovale closure for prevention of paradoxical embolism-related cerebrovascular ischemic events. Circulation 100 (Suppl. 2), 171–175 (1999). Google Scholar ...

Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a failure of the atrial septa to fuse postpartum, potentially leading to right-to-left shunting, which may increase the risk of cerebrovascular events. The authors of ...

Assessment of patent foramen ovale closure in elderly patients with cryptogenic transient ischemic attack or stroke: Efficacy, safety, and potential age-related benefit, European Stroke Journal ...

Dr Lawrence Wechsler decries the lack of randomized controlled trials supporting the use of PFO-closure devices for prevention of stroke and expresses concern for the mounting enthusiasm for their ...

Opotowsky AR, Landzberg MJ, Kimmel SE, Webb GD. Trends in the use of percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale and atrial septal defect in adults, 1998-2004 [research letter]. JAMA 2008; 299: ...

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, ...

In this prospective, multicenter, randomized, event-driven trial, we randomly assigned patients, in a 1:1 ratio, to medical therapy alone or closure of the patent foramen ovale.

PFO closure was recommended in systemic embolism without other embolic etiologies and in platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome without other known causes of hypoxia. ... need for surgical procedures, ...

Two controversial trials testing PFO closure with the Amplatzer PFO Occluder (St. Jude Medical) in patients with cryptogenic stroke, first presented last fall at the TCT meeting, have now been ...

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 ...

In adults, the prevalence of PFO ranges between 20% and 34%. PFO is associated with a variety of disorders, including cryptogenic stroke, transient ischemic attack (TIA), migraine, and ...