A patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a hole in the heart that doesn’t close as expected after birth. Most PFOs don’t require treatment. ... over your chest. The transducer uses sound waves to get a picture ...

A patent foramen ovale is an opening that some adults have between the top two chambers of their hearts. Everyone has this opening early in life, but it often seals during infancy. In some people ...

Scuba divers with high-risk patent foramen ovale, or a hole in the heart, may be more susceptible to decompression illness than previously thought and should adhere to a conservative diving ...

ATLANTA -- Scenarios for patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure not covered by the pivotal trials were a key subject of guidelines released by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and ...

Hailey Bieber is making one year since surviving a mini stroke with some information about the heart condition called PFO that led to the health scare.

Overall, patients without PFO had a higher number of traditional risk factors. In patients without a PFO, the risk of cryptogenic ischemic stroke increased with each additional traditional risk factor ...

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 ...

Abstract. Several lines of evidence suggest that a patent foramen ovale (PFO) may increase the risk of ischemic stroke. In the late 1980s, for example, the first reports were published linking the ...

Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images for WSJ. ... posted in April where she opened up about what ultimately caused the mini stroke and how it led to her diagnosis with patent foramen ovale, or PFO.

The Penguins announced that Letang underwent successful PFO heart surgery. According to the team's announcement, the procedure closed a small hole in his heart. The timeline for recovery is four ...