卵圆孔未闭（PFO）与缺血性卒中等疾病相关，循证医学证据提示PFO封堵术可降低卒中复发风险。中华医学会心血管病学分会、中华心血管病杂志编辑委员会组织国内心血管病学专家、神经病学专家、影像诊断学专家撰写《卵圆孔未闭规范化诊疗中国专家共识 ...

CHICAGO – Patients who have a heart defect known as patent foramen ovale incidentally discovered and repaired during surgery for a different condition may have an increased odds of postoperative ...

Patients who have a heart defect known as patent foramen ovale incidentally discovered and repaired during surgery for a different condition may have an increased odds of postoperative stroke, along ...

July 15 -- TUESDAY, July 14 (HealthDay News) -- Patients may not benefit from repair of a heart defect that's discovered during surgery for another condition, a new study has found. The defect -- ...

ATLANTA, GA (March 13, 2006)--A study presented today during the American College of Cardiology's inaugural Innovation in Intervention: The i2 Summit 2006 in Atlanta, Ga., will answer intriguing ...

Sept. 3, 2003 (Vienna) -- In some migraineurs, headaches appear to be linked to patent foramen ovale (PFO), and in those patients PFO repair can significantly reduce the risk for recurrent migraine ...

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 ...

July 15, 2009 (Cleveland, Ohio) — Surgical closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) newly discovered during cardiothoracic surgery for an unrelated problem may do more harm than good, suggested a ...

Believe it or not, a “hole in the heart” from a condition called patent foramen ovale (PFO) is mostly harmless and doesn’t need treatment. That is, until a person develops problems with blood clots.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . High-risk patent foramen ovale was independently linked to a higher risk for decompression illness in scuba ...