A new study in Heart Rhythm, the official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society, and the Pediatric & Congenital Electrophysiology Society, published by Elsevier, ...
The population of patients undergoing patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure in the US doesn’t match those of the clinical trials that formed the basis of the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of ...
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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 30-year-old woman went into a PFO closure terrified because the procedure was meant to repair a hole in her heart after ...
The foramen ovale is a hole in the wall that divides the two upper chambers of the heart at the level of the atria. The hole is present in the heart of a developing fetus, but normally closes up soon ...
Dan Kenny first started feeling a little off at the end of an otherwise normal workday in February 2023. "I kept telling myself, I'm going on this big trip, maybe I'm just a little tired and hadn't ...