(MA, USA)funded a prospective, randomized, double-blind and sham-controlled trial to study the effects of PFO closure with their STARFlex® device on migraine with aura (Migraine Intervention with ...
Since the first report of an improvement in migraine after intracardiac shunt closure in 2000, [5] more than a dozen additional reports have been published, all in support of a PFO–migraine ...
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 ...
"The totality of evidence in the RESPECT trial clearly demonstrates the superiority of device closure ... a PFO is a hole between the left and right atria (upper chambers) of the heart that ...
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 ...
Nir Flint et al, Patent foramen ovale closure with cryoballoon ablation: "Please close the door on your way out", Heart Rhythm (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2024.07.120 Provided by Elsevier ...