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Echocardiographic guided, transatrial closure of a patent foramen ovale

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2020
Background The management of an incidental patent foramen ovale found during planned cardiac surgery remains a challenge, and current guidelines are not helpful.
Felix Fleissner, Paul Frank, Axel Haverich, Issam Ismail   +3 more
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Patent Foramen Ovale: Story Closed? [PDF]

Journal of Stroke, 2019
The optimal treatment strategy for secondary prevention in patients with cryptogenic stroke and patent foramen ovale (PFO) has been a matter of controversy for decades. After three randomized trials failed to show a benefit of closure with an excess of complications in the interventional arm, two large recent trials suggest a benefit with regard of ...
Köhrmann, Martin, Schellinger, Peter Dieter, Tsivgoulis, Georgios, Steiner, Thorsten   +3 more
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Percutaneous closure of PFO in patients with reduced oxygen saturation at rest and during exercise : short- and long-term results [PDF]

, 2020
Background. A patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a rare cause of hypoxemia and clinical symptoms of dyspnea. Due to a right-to-left shunt, desaturated blood enters the systemic circulation in a subset of patients resulting in dyspnea and a subsequent ...
De Cuyper, Celine, De Pauw, Michel, De Wolf, Daniël, Derom, Eric, Paelinck, Bernard, Pauwels, Tristan, Van Berendoncks, An, Vermeersch, Gaelle, Vermeersch, Paul   +8 more
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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, Elena N. Krivosheeva, Maksim I. Makeev, Evgeny V. Merkulov, Maria I. Tripoten, Elizaveta P. Panchenko   +5 more
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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, Muath Alanbaei, Islam Abouelenein   +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 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, Mayowa Sefiu Oguntade   +1 more
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Brain abscesses in a patient with a patent foramen ovale: a case report [PDF]

, 2009
Introduction Brain abscesses arising from right-to-left cardiac shunting are very rare in adults. Case presentation We describe the case of a 47-year-old non-hispanic white male with periodontal disease who developed several brain abscesses caused by ...
Fuad Jan, Abdul Moiz Hafiz, Saurabh Gupta, John Meidl, Suhail Allaqaband, P Lechat, SN Kundra, T Kawamata, RN Khouzam   +8 more
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Percutaneous Closure of the Patent Foramen Ovale on Right Ventricular Mechanical Circulatory Support

JACC: Case Reports, 2020
Right ventricular infarction can precipitate severe right-to-left shunting and refractory hypoxia from a previously dormant patent foramen ovale. Right ventricle mechanical circulatory support and patent foramen ovale closure can play a crucial role in ...
Abhinav Saxena, MD, Paul Saunders, MD, Robert Frankel, MD, Michael Friedman, MD, Aleksandar Adzic, MD, Norbert Moskovits, MD, Jignesh Patel, MD, Shivani Verma, MD, Jacob Shani, MD, Gerald Hollander, MD   +9 more
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Petechial Rash and Glomerulonephritis

JACC: Case Reports, 2023
Patent foramen ovale device closure is rarely associated with complications. This case report is believed to be the first description of a patient with infective endocarditis of a patent foramen ovale closure device presenting as glomerulonephritis. This
William John Jenner, PhD, Gayathri Rajakaruna, PhD, George Asimakopoulos, PhD, Mary Lynch, MD   +3 more
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