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Patent Foramen Ovale Closure [PDF]

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2018
Two meta-analyses in this issue make a case that the totality of available data favors patent foramen ovale closure to prevent recurrent stroke in patients who, after work-up, are found to have pat...
Graeme J. Hankey, B. McQuillan
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Giant thrombus entrapped by a patent foramen ovale in a patient with polycystic kidney disease

Clinical and Biomedical Research, 2017
Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is the most common genetic cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD). The most common cause of death in patients with this condition is cardiovascular disease, mainly due to hypertension and its consequences.
Gustavo Neves de Araujo, Stéfani Mariani, Felipe Pereira Lima Marques, Lucas Simonetto Faganello, Luís Henrique Klafke, Douglas Dal Más Freitas, Solano Berger   +6 more
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Patent Foramen Ovale [PDF]

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 ...
Matt Morgan, Craig Hacking, Calum Worsley   +2 more
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of patent foramen ovale closure versus medical therapy alone after cryptogenic stroke

PLoS ONE, 2022
Background Closure of a patent foramen ovale reduces the risk of recurrent stroke compared with medical therapy alone in young patients with cryptogenic strokes revealed by randomized control trials.
Yoko Shijoh, Shota Saito, Zhehao Dai, Sachiko Ohde   +3 more
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Patent Foramen Ovale? An Interesting Case Report [PDF]

Kans J Med
William D. Rea
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Research progress of migraine and patent foramen ovale

Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2021
Migraine is a common clinical chronic neurovascular disease, which seriously affects the quality of life of patients. Studies have shown that patent foramen ovale (PFO) may be related to migraine, such as transient hypoxemia caused by patent foramen ...
LIU Kai, ZHAO Jia⁃wei, ZHANG Rui, GAO Yuan, LIU Han, XU Yu⁃ming, SONG Bo   +6 more
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Transcatheter closure for decompression sickness with a patent foramen ovale: A case report

Journal of Interventional Medicine, 2021
A patent foramen ovale is one of the predisposing factors of neurotic decompression sickness. Transcatheter closure of a patent foramen ovale is effective in the secondary prevention of decompression sickness associated with intracardiac shunt.
Fenglin Jiang
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Clinical manifestation and imaging characteristics of transient global amnesia: patent foramen ovale as an underlying factor [PDF]

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 2021
Transient global amnesia is not rare, but its etiology remains unknown. Cerebral ischemia is a suspected cause because high signal intensity is observed on diffusion-weighted brain magnetic resonance imaging; however, previous studies have not ...
Sang-Mi Noh, Hyun Goo Kang   +1 more
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CT Diagnosis of Paradoxical Embolism via a Patent Foramen Ovale in a Patient with a Pulmonary Embolism and Prominent Eustachian Valve

대한영상의학회지, 2021
While there is a high prevalence of patent foramen ovale in adults, paradoxical embolism via a patent foramen ovale is rare. Previous echocardiographic studies indicated that paradoxical embolism might only occur in patients with high-risk features of ...
Min Ji Son, Seung Min Yoo, Charles S White   +2 more
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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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