When Dr. M. Soubhi Azzouz joined Western Slope Cardiology last year in Grand Junction, he brought with him a skill set that would allow the practice to expand their heart surgery practice for local ...

A patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a hole in the heart that doesn’t close as expected after birth. Before a baby is born, they have a hole between the left and right sides of their heart. This hole, ...

BASEL, Switzerland—In a study of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries older than 60 who had had an ischemic stroke, percutaneous patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure was associated with improved ...

The first US expert consensus document on patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure for cryptogenic stroke stresses the primary role that neurologists should play and suggests institutional and operator ...

Having a residual shunt after percutaneous patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure was associated with an elevated risk of stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) recurrence years after the procedure, ...

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

A patent foramen ovale (PFO) is the persistence of an opening (the foramen ovale) in the septum between the right atrium and left atrium of the heart. In the fetus, the foramen ovale allows blood to ...

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 ...

HOUSTON — February is American Hearth Health Month and we're putting the spotlight that impacts about one in four adults, even if they don't know they have it. "Twenty to thirty percent of the world ...

A patent foramen ovale is an opening that some adults have between the top two chambers of their hearts. Everyone has this opening early in life, but it often seals during infancy. In some people, ...