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

A patent foramen ovale or PFO is a defect in the wall between the two upper chambers of the heart. This defect is actually an incomplete closure of the atrial wall that results in a flap or valve-like ...

A new study suggests the underlying reason for these unexplained, or cryptogenic, strokes could hinge in part on whether ...

A patent foramen ovale (PFO) is present in nearly one-quarter of patients in autopsy studies and is even more prevalent in young patients with cryptogenic stroke. Whether these PFOs should be ...

How May PFO Closure Affect Migraine? If one accepts that a PFO plays a pivotal role in the course of a migraine attack, the following scenarios are possible: given that the concept of migraine is ...

Experten aber wiegeln ab. Normalerweise bereitet ein „Persistierendes Foramen Ovale“ (PFO), wie das Loch in der Fachsprache heißt, keinerlei Probleme. „Das ist ein Befund, den Patienten nicht merken“, ...

HealthDay News — Traditional risk factors contribute to young-onset cryptogenic ischemic stroke (CIS) without patent foramen ovale (PFO), while nontraditional risk factors seem more important for CIS ...

The 26-year-old model shared some information from UCLA Health on her Instagram Stories about the condition that led to her mini stroke called Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) Kimberlee Speakman is a ...

Traditional risk factors contribute most to young-onset CIS without patent foramen ovale; nontraditional risk factors more important in CIS with PFO. (HealthDay News) — Traditional risk factors ...