EMMA Willis has recieved a shock diagnosis for a silent condition she has had since birth, which left her needing surgery.

Some people may never realise they were born with a heart defect causing them to have a 'hole' in their heart.

Nontraditional risk factors, particularly migraine with aura, play a major role in patients under 50 years old.

Non-traditional risk factors were particularly important among people born with a heart defect called patent foramen ovale ...

Diagnosing a secundum ASD is more often than not incidental because the defect normally causes ... in 15 of the 593 (2.5%) ASD and patent foramen ovale patients. [48] The thrombus was diagnosed ...

Closure of an atrial septal defect can be done either percutaneously with a closure device or surgically. ASD closure is indicated when right heart enlargement is present, however not in the ...

In adults under age 50, strokes caused by clots are on the rise – and many happen without a clear link to a traditional cause ...

In her next two Instagram Story slides, she shared some facts from UCLA Health about PFO, including that it is "the most congenital heart defect" and affects "20% of all people." Hailey Bieber Had ...

Non-traditional risk factors were particularly important among people born with a heart defect called patent foramen ovale (PFO), which involves a hole in the upper chambers of the heart ...