Background Aortogenic stroke is an important subtype of embolic strokes, yet lacks a diagnostic method for proactive ...
Patent foramen ovale (PFO) increase the rate of ischemic stroke among patients with symptomatic pulmonary embolism (PE), according to a new prospective cohort study. Its authors say the findings ...
Patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) are at high risk for stroke, and the risk is further raised by about fourfold by the presence of a patent foramen ovale (PFO), a new study suggests. "This ...
Washington, DC - "Just because everybody is doing it doesn't mean it works." So said Dr Lawrence Wechsler (University of Pittsburgh, PA) during a heated debate on the use and abuse of patent foramen ...
Cryptogenic strokes constitute 20 to 30% of ischemic strokes, and most cryptogenic strokes are considered to be embolic and of undetermined source. An earlier randomized trial showed that rivaroxaban ...
Transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) for the treatment of aortic stenosis can lead to embolization of debris. Capture of debris by devices that provide cerebral embolic protection (CEP) may ...
Background A 28-year-old man presented at hospital with persistent pain in his chest and left arm, a paced rhythm on electrocardiography and elevated levels of cardiac enzymes. He was known to have ...
CHICAGO, IL—Cerebral embolic protection devices are infrequently used during transcatheter aortic valve implantation procedures in the United States, and new data suggest their use does not appear to ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients having TAVR, cerebral embolic protection reduced risk for periprocedural stroke in patients from the ...
A device designed to remove embolic material—fragments of tissue that can be released into the bloodstream during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)—did not result in a reduction in the ...
AorticLab received FDA approval for an Investigational Device Exemption to begin a pivotal clinical trial of its FLOWer ...
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