A woman in her 40s presented with progressive cognitive decline, expressive language difficulty and episodic confusion. Her initial symptoms were misattributed to psychiatric illness, and later to ...

Patent foramen ovale (PFO) increase the rate of ischemic stroke among patients with symptomatic pulmonary embolism (PE), according to a new prospective cohort study. Its authors say the findings ...

Patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) are at high risk for stroke, and the risk is further raised by about fourfold by the presence of a patent foramen ovale (PFO), a new study suggests. "This ...

Patients hospitalized for pulmonary embolism were four times more likely to have had a recent ischemic stroke if they also had patent foramen ovale, according to a study published in the Annals of ...

Percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale has been introduced as an option for patients who have had a cerebral embolic event (such as stroke or transient ischaemic attack) and in whom paradoxical ...

CHICAGO, IL—Cerebral embolic protection devices are infrequently used during transcatheter aortic valve implantation procedures in the United States, and new data suggest their use does not appear to ...

Background A 28-year-old man presented at hospital with persistent pain in his chest and left arm, a paced rhythm on electrocardiography and elevated levels of cardiac enzymes. He was known to have ...

Including cardiac CT in the initial hyperacute stroke imaging protocol gives a higher yield for detecting high-risk cardioaortic sources of embolism than the current practice of performing later ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BOSTON — In PROTECTED TAVR, the largest-ever randomized trial of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, ...

Evidence-based recommendations on percutaneous closure of the patent foramen ovale for the prevention of cerebral embolic stroke. This involves placing a small device into the heart to close the hole.