Patients with migraine, patent foramen ovale (PFO), and atrial septal aneurysm (ASA) have more frequent ischemic brain lesions, migraine with aura, and larger PFO sizes than patients with migraines ...

Boston, MA - A new study shows that among patients who have already had a stroke of unknown origin, the presence of both a patent foramen ovale (PFO) and an atrial septal aneurysm (ASA) greatly ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The persistently patent foramen ovale has been implicated in a variety of neurologic and embolic events, ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Atrial septal aneurysm (ASA) is defined as excursion of the atrial septum exceeding 10 mm beyond the ...

A new study is once again drawing the link between a patent foramen ovale (PFO) and migraine headaches—this time researchers are zeroing in on the subset of patients with both a PFO and atrial septal ...

Patients younger than 60 years with patent foramen ovale (PFO)-related stroke who have both an atrial septal aneurysm (ASA) and a large shunt benefit stand to benefit more from PFO closure than those ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

May 15, 2007 (Denver, CO) - Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) is about as effective as transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) at assessing thromboembolic risk prior to cardioversion in patients with ...

This paper presents serial cardiac-catheterization data showing spontaneous functional closure of large symptomatic defects in 3 infants. One had an associated moderate-sized patent ductus arteriosus ...