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Diagnosis of an Anatomically and Physiologically Significant Patent Foramen Ovale
Author(s) -
Kerut Edmund Kenneth,
Lee Stacey,
Fox Ervin
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00318.x
Subject(s) - medicine , library science , computer science
The presence of an anatomically and physiologically significant patent foramen ovale (PFO) appears to be associated with several different clinical conditions,1 including unexplained neurological decompression sickness (DCS) in divers2–7 and aviators/astronauts,8–9 cryptogenic stroke,10–15 and the platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome.16–20 Recently, it appears that migraine headache also may be associated with a PFO.21–25