Marco R. Di Tullio; Peter C. Block, M.D., F.A.C.C. However, the risk of first-ever stroke in asymptomatic subjects with PFO in the general population has not been clearly established. This ...

结束了长达数十年的等待，美国食品和药物管理局（FDA）今天终于批准封堵 PFO 封堵器（圣犹达医疗）可用于预防复发性中风与卵圆孔未闭（PFO）和隐性中风病史。 批准是因为大多数 FDA 循环系统设备小组都认为该装置的潜在益处超过其安全性的担忧。尽管有 ...

med. Lars Kellert in issue 31–32/2017 In their article on juvenile stroke, the authors also comment on indication for interventional closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) (1). On the basis of a ...

Patent foramen ovale (PFO) has been linked to cryptogenic stroke, but the mechanisms of this relationship remain unclear. Botto et al. set out to investigate the prevalence of prothrombotic gene ...

Lauren Jean had to learn to walk and talk again after her contraceptive pill caused a stroke when she was just 17-years-old ...

Newer scoring tools and anatomic factors may foster better understanding of benefit in older patients, says Hemal Gada.

Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is an interatrial communication at the level of oval fossa caused by the incomplete or missed fusion of the septum primum and septum secundum after birth. PFO has a ...

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A young Lancashire woman had a stroke at just 17-years-old due to complications with her contraceptive pill. Lauren Jean was ...

A PFO is present in everyone before birth but seals shut in most people ... If clots remain in the blood and pass through the left chamber, they can lodge in the brain, heart, eyes or kidneys, causing ...

Possible mechanisms explaining the migraine-stroke connection include genetic predisposition, endothelial dysfunction, coagulation abnormalities, arterial dissection, and paradoxical embolism via a ...