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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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Practical Neurology, 2020 Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is the most common anatomical cause of an interatrial shunt. It is usually asymptomatic but may cause paradoxical embolism, manifesting as stroke, myocardial infarction or visceral/peripheral ischaemia. PFO is a risk factor for stroke and may be associated with migraine with aura. New evidence suggests PFO closure reduces the
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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 +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 +5 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 +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 +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 +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 +3 more
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