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Filter by:Patients who underwent both bubble transcranial Doppler (bubble-TCD) and transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE) at our institution were consecutively enrolled in this real-world case-control study from August 2016 through August 2023. The patients were categorized into three groups based on the degree of the shunt observed: mild (3-9 bubbles), moderate (10-30bubbles), and severe (more than 30 bubbles). In cases with mild-shunt (small-size) PFO, post-procedural anticoagulation or PFO closure was administered. Subsequent to the interventions, the follow-up encompassed the recording of migraine remission, recurrent neurological incidents, instances of major bleeding, and mortality.
The goal of this observational study is to retrospectively observe the effect of PFO closure and medication on migraine. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Whether PFO closure is more effective in the treatment of migraine than traditional medical treatment - What factors affect the effectiveness of migraine treatment ? Participants will undergo contrast transthoracic echocardiography to diagnose PFO and evaluate right-to-left shunt. They will be treated with medication and PFO closure respectively according to guidelines. HIT-6 and a questionnaire about migraine were obtained at the baseline and repeated at the 6-month and 12-month follow-up visits. Researchers will compare closure group and drug group to see efficacy of two groups in treating migraine.
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and patent foramen ovale (FOP) are considered as risk factors for stroke. OSAS generates a pressure increase in the right cavity during inspiratory efforts, which increases the number of right-left shunt embolus and therefore the risk of stroke. OSA and FOP are often thought as two separate entities, however, due to their high frequencies, they sometimes coexist and can influence the pathophysiology of each other. More researches are needed in this area to confirm this complex association and its role in triggering stroke.
- Describe the baseline and procedural characteristics of older patients undergoing PFO closure due to cryptogenic embolism. - Assess the long-term follow-up of this cohort, focusing on neurological events and their origin, major cardiac outcomes, as well as survival rates and death origin. - Seek for predictors of neurological event recurrence after the procedure.
This study is a multi-center, prospective, single-arm, non-significant risk (NSR) device study in which up to 150 evaluable subjects with suspicion of embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) will be evaluated with NB-IS TCD and standard of care TTE to screen for right to left shunt (RLS) or patent foramen ovale (PFO). Additionally, up to 150 evaluable subjects will be evaluated with NB-IS TCD and standard of care TEE.
The objectives of the study are: - To determine the efficacy of the Figulla Flex II device compared with that of the Amplatzer ASO device for transcatheter closure of secundum atrial septal defects - To determine the safety of the Figulla Flex II device compared with that of the Amplatzer ASO device for transcatheter closure of secundum atrial septal defects This is a randomized, controlled, multi-centre trial of the efficacy and safety of the Occlutech septal occluder (Figulla Flex II) compared to the AGA septal occluder (Amplatzer ASO) for transcatheter closure of secundum atrial septal defects in patients.
The investigators hypothesis is that an injection into the inferior vena cava associated with a provocation maneuver should allow to increase the incidence of FOP found by transesophageal echocardiography in a population of patients undergoing lung transplantation.
The investigator retrospectively analyzed consecutive young (<60 years) cryptogenic stroke patients with Patient Foramen Ovale (PFO) recruited between January 2016 and May 2019 in our center, and compared these patients with sex- and age-matched controls with cryptogenic stroke without PFO. Analyzed baseline characteristics: sex, age, cardiovascular risk factors, history of stroke, and cortical/subcortical localization, arterial territory, number of lesions, and lesion size of the acute symptomatic infarction, together with the ROPE score. The presence and the number of acute and chronic SCCI lesions were assessed.
It has been proposed that there would not be an increased risk of DCI after closure of the interatrial communication, i.e. patent foramen ovale (PFO).
In summary, the investigators propose to study elite Croatian breath-hold and SCUBA divers. The investigators will quantify breath-hold hypoxia- and SCUBA diving-induced pulmonary hypertension and right heart function to investigate the relationships between PFO and IPAVA blood flow. The investigators will use a placebo-controlled intervention (sildenafil) to reduce pulmonary arterial pressure in these subjects to examine the impact of the change in pressure (or absence of change) on the relationships determined above.