Transesophageal echocardiography shows a patent foramen ovale without atrial septal aneurysm. What are the implications of this finding, and what therapy should be recommended? In Panel A ...

The most common way to diagnose a patent foramen ovale is with an echocardiogram — a type of ultrasound for your heart. This allows your doctor to use soundwaves to see the different parts of ...

With the advent of transoesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography, as well as transcranial Doppler, a PFO can be routinely detected in clinical practice. Medical treatment with either ...

With a sensitivity of only around 45% for PFO, it identifies less than half of PFOs when they're actually present," Rubin noted. The more sensitive transesophageal echocardiography (TEE ...

We examined all patients for the presence or absence of patent foramen ovale, using transesophageal echocardiography. A total of 596 consecutive patients admitted to our stroke unit or neurologic ...

Having a residual shunt after percutaneous patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure was associated ... patient-years with a shunt on transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) compared with 0.75 per 100 ...

The association between PFO and perioperative stroke was also confirmed in analyses further limited solely to patients who had undergone the forms of echocardiography considered most sensitive for ...

An echocardiogram is a test that shows detailed pictures of your heart. There are many types, and they're performed in different ways. (Photo credit: E+/Getty Images) An echocardiogram is a test ...

Everyone is born with a hole in the heart. During pregnancy, this hole allows blood to bypass the fetal lungs — which aren’t yet working — and deliver oxygen to the unborn baby’s heart and ...

Ultrasound technicians then performed contrast transthoracic echocardiography (c-TTE) and contrast transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (c-TCD) to screen for and evaluate the rates of PFO and RLS ...

Most of the time, there’s no need to pursue the diagnosis of a PFO. However, if your doctor feels a diagnosis is necessary, they may recommend an echocardiogram. This technique uses sound waves ...