Based on these encouraging nonrandomized observations, NMT Medical Inc. (MA, USA)funded a prospective, randomized, double-blind and sham-controlled trial to study the effects of PFO closure with ...

A new study in Heart Rhythm, the official journal of ... conventional treatment of implementing a percutaneous metal device for PFO closure, which is associated with adverse events such as ...

report a certain amount of improvement after PFO closure. Indeed, the same factors influencing the risk of paradoxical embolism are likely to have a role in the pathogenesis of migraine and ...

A patent foramen ovale or PFO is a defect in the wall between the two upper chambers of the heart. This defect is actually an incomplete closure of the atrial wall that results in a flap or valve-like ...

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 US ...

ASD: Atrial septal defect; NA: Not assessed; NR: Not reported; PFO: Patent foramen ovale ... activation on the left atrial disk of the closure device followed by microembolism is plausible.