Patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure reduced the risk for recurrent ischemic stroke in most young and middle-aged adults with cryptogenic stroke but increased the risk for atrial fibrillation (AF) in a ...
A retrospective comparison of six patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure devices used in the United States over 18 years shows a trade-off between effectiveness and arrhythmia. Specifically, the ...
Long-term follow-up of patients who underwent patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure for cryptogenic stroke points to a very low rate of ischemic events and no device safety issues emerging beyond 10 ...
The research was designed to determine the PFO closure rate, procedure-related complications, the recurrence of AF, and stroke/TIA events. Patients who underwent AS cryoablation had a significantly ...
Shown are Kaplan–Meier estimates in the intention-to-treat population. The inset shows the same data on an enlarged y axis. The incidence of serious adverse events was similar in the two trial groups, ...
The foramen ovale is a tunnel-like anatomical structure located in the interatrial wall of the fetal heart that enables right-to-left shunting during fetal development. In the majority of people this ...