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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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From Mild Discomfort to Myopericarditis-A Complication of Patent Foramen Ovale Occluder Device Placement: A Case Report. [PDF]

J Soc Cardiovasc Angiogr Interv
Proshkina A, Shpigelman J, Al Ayyubi R, Bahrou M, Al Tamimi R, Al Turk A.   +5 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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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: 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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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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