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Patent foramen ovale and thromboembolic complications [PDF]
Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2010 The foramen ovale, an atrial septal defect which is essential in the fetal circulation, remains patent through adulthood in approximately 25% of the general population and so it represents the most common persistent abnormality of fetal origin.
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Zdravniški Vestnik, 2006 Background: Stroke is the third cause of mortality and leading cause of disability regarding the World Health Organization data. Cryptogenic stroke encompasses 40% of young adults with ischemic stroke.
Marjan Zaletel +3 more
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Texas Heart Institute Journal, 2014 Structural-heart-disease specialists perform procedures that will correct anatomic abnormalities of the heart, such as patent foramen ovale (PFO): a congenital opening in the interatrial septum. In utero, the foramen ovale is an extremely important structure, because it enables oxygenated blood from the placenta to travel from the fetus's right atrium ...
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Perspectives in Medicine, 2012 SummaryParadoxical embolism is a possible cause of ischemic stroke, particularly in younger patients without any other cause, i.e. cryptogenic stroke, and a patent foramen ovale is the most frequently assumed cause. The contrast transcranial Doppler monitoring mode has a sensitivity that is comparable to contrast transesophageal echocardiography for ...
Kurt Niederkorn +2 more
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Patent foramen ovale and stroke [PDF]
Journal of Cardiology, 2010 The presence of a patent foramen ovale has been found to be associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke of otherwise unknown origin (cryptogenic stroke). The present article will review the evidence regarding this association, the technical aspects of PFO detection, and the preventive options to decrease the risk of recurrent cerebral events.
Marco R. Di Tullio, Shunichi Homma
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Acute Myocardial Infarction Secondary to Paradoxical Embolism
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2020 Patent foramen ovale is a risk factor for systemic embolic events such as cryptogenic stroke. Far less commonly, patent foramen ovale is associated with non-cerebral systemic embolic events.
Abdullah R Alenezi +2 more
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Heart Carcinoid Disease with Patent Foramen Ovale Treated by Mini Sternotomy [PDF]
Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, 2017 This case report was an attempt to present the importance of diagnostic echocardiography and closure of a patent foramen ovale in carcinoid heart disease.
Juan Siordia, Sreekumar Subramanian
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Patent foramen ovale as the cause of recurrent embolic strokes. Case report
Терапевтический архив, 2022 А clinical case of a young patient with recurrent ischemic strokes is presented. The problems of diagnostic embolic strokes are discussed. We set out the algorithm for identifying patients, in whom patent foramen ovale is the most probable cause of ...
Andrey L. Komarov +5 more
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Patent Foramen Ovale and Stroke [PDF]
Practical Neurology, 2003 "Patent foramen ovale and stroke Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a remnant of the fetal circulation whose role in the occurrence of ischemic stroke is now well established. Trancatheter PFO closure followed by long-term antiplatelet therapy reduces by approximately 60% compared to antithrombotic therapy alone, the risk of stroke recurrence in patients ...
Shunichi Homma, Carlos J. Rodriguez
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Patent foramen ovale closure review: decades of research and the evolution of the evidence
The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine, 2021 Background A quarter of the population suffers from patent foramen ovale, a form of interatrial shunt. It has been linked to cryptogenic strokes and is a common cause of paradoxical embolism.
Ayodipupo S Oguntade +1 more
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