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 ...

Two new case series suggest transcatheter device closure of patent foramen ovale ... Surgical, and now percutaneous, closure of the PFO has also been undertaken to eliminate the shunt and ...

In this prospective, multicenter, randomized, event-driven trial, we randomly assigned patients, in a 1:1 ratio, to medical therapy alone or closure of the patent foramen ovale.

PFO closure was recommended in systemic embolism without other embolic etiologies and in platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome without other known causes of hypoxia. ... need for surgical procedures, ...

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 ...

FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Prof. Dr. Achille Gaspardone, Director of Cardiology at Hospital of Sant'Eugenio (Rome, Italy) presented a comprehensive report on closure of PFO ...

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. ... One patient in the ...

Closure Improves Saturation, Symptoms. Twenty-one patients underwent PFO closure; 13 who demonstrated exercise-induced oxygen desaturation and 8 who did not. The majority of the closure procedures ...

"In patients undergoing percutaneous ASD [atrial septal defect] or PFO [patent foramen ovale] closure, ... we strongly counsel them for a surgical closure as opposed to a device closure," Verma said.

Percutaneous closure can be described as a less-invasive surgical procedure that is used to treat patients with atrial septal defect (ASD) or patent foramen ovale (PFO). Since the utilization of ...

Surgical closure of patent foramen ovale is sometimes performed as an adjunct to other open-heart surgery, but is rarely done on its own because of associated morbidity. Next page 3 The procedure ...

It provides an alternative to surgical closure, ... It is then passed into the heart and across the patent foramen ovale. The closure device is released to close the defect using image guidance such ...