New research shows that cryoablation is a safe and effective approach to close congenital patent foramen ovale (PFO, a small hole in the heart) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) undergoing ...

St. Luke's Health-Memorial Hospital Lufkin recently announced a significant advancement in cardiovascular care, becoming the first and only hospital in Deep East Texas to successfully perform a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Supraventricular arrhythmias may be underestimated in patients who have received percutaneous patent foramen ...

New research shows that cryoablation is a safe and effective approach to close congenital patent foramen ovale (PFO, a small hole in the heart) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) undergoing ...

DENVER, CO—A percutaneous, suture-based system for patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure is showing potential, given its lack of postprocedural complication risk—something observed with traditional ...

Said Wu: "And the procedure takes about 30 to 60 minutes, and then if everything goes OK, the patient can leave the same day." Wu says the PFO procedure should involve a collaboration between a ...

A 46-year-old female with no previously documented illnesses presented with 15 months of diarrhea, abdominal pain, and flushing after alcohol consumption. Abdominal CT showed multiple hepatic masses, ...

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 ...

Current evidence on the efficacy of percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) for the secondary prevention of recurrent paradoxical embolism in divers is inadequate in quality and quantity, ...

Over the past years, many researchers have been engaged in deciphering the interrelationship between migraine and patent foramen ovale (PFO) and have tried to answer the question of whether PFO ...