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 information ...

A “dose-response” relationship may exist between migraine and patent foramen ovale (PFO), according to a review published in Frontiers in Neurology. According to the American Heart Association, a PFO ...

Two opposing factors figure in the decision to close a patent foramen ovale (PFO) in patients with stroke of undetermined cause (ie, cryptogenic stroke [CS]). One is the high threshold of evidence we ...

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, ...

Nobles Medical Technology II, a pioneering leader in innovative cardiovascular closure solutions, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to restart its ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . High-risk patent foramen ovale was independently linked to a higher risk for decompression illness in scuba ...

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.

Patients hospitalized for pulmonary embolism were four times more likely to have had a recent ischemic stroke if they also had patent foramen ovale, according to a study published in the Annals of ...

patent foramen ovale_cropped Patients diagnosed with PFO prior to noncardiac surgery have an elevated ischemic stroke risk. Patients preoperatively diagnosed with patent foramen ovale (PFO) are at ...

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 ...