Patent Foramen Ovale, Systemic Embolization, and Closure

Incidence and Size of Patent Foramen Ovale During the First 10 Decades of Life: An Autopsy Study of 965 Normal Hearts

1984 • 2,446 citations

Prevalence of Patent Foramen Ovale in Patients with Stroke

1988 • 1,643 citations

Recurrent Cerebrovascular Events Associated with Patent Foramen Ovale, Atrial Septal Aneurysm, or Both

2001 • 1,361 citations

A Comparison of Warfarin and Aspirin for the Prevention of Recurrent Ischemic Stroke

2001 • 1,172 citations

Effect of Medical Treatment in Stroke Patients With Patent Foramen Ovale

2002 • 948 citations

Interatrial septal abnormalities and stroke

2000 • 940 citations

Patent Foramen Ovale as a Risk Factor for Cryptogenic Stroke

1992 • 611 citations

Patent Foramen Ovale and Cryptogenic Stroke in Older Patients

2007 • 589 citations

Percutaneous Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale in Patients With Paradoxical Embolism

2000 • 445 citations

Stroke recurrence in patients with patent foramen ovale

1996 • 435 citations

Effect on migraine of closure of cardiac right-to-left shunts to prevent recurrence of decompression illness or stroke or for haemodynamic reasons

2000 • 429 citations

Patent Foramen Ovale: Innocent or Guilty?

2005 • 429 citations

Diagnosis and classification of atrial septal aneurysm by two-dimensional echocardiography: Report of 80 consecutive cases

1985 • 414 citations

Prevalence of Potential Risk Factors for Stroke Assessed by Transesophageal Echocardiography and Carotid Ultrasonography: The SPARC Study

1999 • 403 citations

Transcatheter Closure versus Medical Therapy of Patent Foramen Ovale and Presumed Paradoxical Thromboemboli

2003 • 401 citations

Recurrent cerebrovascular events in patients with patent foramen ovale, atrial septal aneurysm, or both and cryptogenic stroke or transient ischemic attack

1995 • 374 citations

Migraine with Aura and Right-to-Left Shunt on Transcranial Doppler: A Case-Control Study

1998 • 367 citations

Patent Foramen Ovale and the Risk of Ischemic Stroke in a Multiethnic Population

2007 • 334 citations

Characteristics of patent foramen ovale associated with cryptogenic stroke. A biplane transesophageal echocardiographic study.

1994 • 326 citations

Percutaneous Transcatheter Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale in Patients With Paradoxical Embolism

2002 • 314 citations

Frequency of Atrial Septal Aneurysms in Patients With Cerebral Ischemic Events

1999 • 290 citations

Contemporary Management of Patent Foramen Ovale

2003 • 260 citations

Caught in the Act

2003 • 252 citations

Transcatheter closure of atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale under intracardiac echocardiographic guidance: Feasibility and comparison with transesophageal echocardiography

2001 • 220 citations

Surgical Patent Foramen Ovale Closure for Prevention of Paradoxical Embolism-Related Cerebrovascular Ischemic Events

1999 • 214 citations

Closure of patent foramen ovale for paradoxical emboli: intermediate-term risk of recurrent neurological events following transcatheter device placement

2000 • 208 citations

Transcatheter closure of patent foramen ovale in patients with cerebral ischemia

2002 • 206 citations

Surgical Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale in Cryptogenic Stroke Patients

1997 • 202 citations

Transcatheter closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) in patients with paradoxical embolism Periprocedural safety and mid-term follow-up results of three different device occluder systems

2004 • 194 citations

Patent Foramen Ovale, a Possible Cause of Symptomatic Migraine: A Study of 74 Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke

2002 • 174 citations

Prognosis after stroke followed by surgical closure of patent foramen ovale

1996 • 169 citations

Transcatheter Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale: A New Migraine Treatment?

2003 • 168 citations

Intracardiac Echocardiography Is Superior to Conventional Monitoring for Guiding Device Closure of Interatrial Communications

2003 • 161 citations

Transcatheter Closure of Interatrial Communications for Secondary Prevention of Paradoxical Embolism

2002 • 152 citations

Prognosis after percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale for paradoxical embolism

2001 • 137 citations

Power M-Mode Transcranial Doppler for Diagnosis of Patent Foramen Ovale and Assessing Transcatheter Closure

2004 • 133 citations

Transesophageal echocardiography and carotid ultrasound in patients with cerebral ischemia: Prevalence of findings and recurrent stroke risk

1994 • 133 citations

Patent Foramen Ovale with Paradoxical Embolism: Mid‐Term Results of Transcatheter Closure in 256 Patients

2003 • 122 citations

Population-Based Study of the Relationship Between Patent Foramen Ovale and Cerebrovascular Ischemic Events

2006 • 112 citations

Five-Year Experience With Percutaneous Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale

2007 • 110 citations

Patent Foramen Ovale Closure in Patients with Transient Ischemia Attack/Stroke

2001 • 109 citations

Right-to-left shunt and risk of decompression illness with cochleovestibular and cerebral symptoms in divers: Case control study in 101 consecutive dive accidents

2003 • 104 citations

Almost Perfect Concordance Between Simultaneous Transcranial Doppler and Transesophageal Echocardiography in the Quantification of Right‐to‐Left Shunts

2006 • 97 citations

Late cardiac perforation following transcatheter atrial septal defect closure

2004 • 89 citations

Complementarity of Contrast Transcranial Doppler and Contrast Transesophageal Echocardiography for the Detection of Patent Foramen ovale in Stroke Patients

1997 • 88 citations

Transcatheter Amplatzer Device Closure of Atrial Septal Defect and Patent Foramen Ovale in Patients With Presumed Paradoxical Embolism

2004 • 86 citations

Long-term results after fluoroscopy-guided closure of patent foramen ovale for secondary prevention of paradoxical embolism

2007 • 84 citations

Intracardiac Echocardiographic Guidance During Transcatheter Device Closure of Atrial Septal Defect and Patent Foramen Ovale

2004 • 83 citations

Patent Foramen Ovale and Stroke

2004 • 76 citations

Transcatheter closure of patent foramen ovale using the Amplatzer septal occluder to prevent recurrence of neurological decompression illness in divers

1999 • 76 citations

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Transesophageal Echocardiography in Patients With Transcatheter Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale

2006 • 68 citations

Cardiac perforation following transcatheter PFO closure

2002 • 67 citations

Incidence of aortic valve regurgitation and outcome after percutaneous closure of atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale

2007 • 65 citations

Trapped Thrombus in a Patent Foramen Ovale

1997 • 64 citations

Patent foramen ovale and paradoxical systemic embolism: a bibliographic review.

2003 • 60 citations

Clinical impact of patent foramen ovale diagnosis with transcranial Doppler

2002 • 58 citations

Structural and compliant anatomy of the patent foramen ovale in patients undergoing transcatheter closure

2000 • 56 citations

Diagnosis of Right-to-Left Shunt With Transcranial Doppler and Vertebrobasilar Recording

2007 • 54 citations

Surgical treatment of impending paradoxical embolism through patent foramen ovale

1995 • 49 citations

Patent Foramen Ovale: Paradoxical Embolism and Paradoxical Data

2004 • 49 citations

RESEARCH FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: Patent Foramen Ovale in a Large Population of Ischemic Stroke Patients: Diagnosis, Age Distribution, Gender, and Race

2007 • 49 citations

Comparison of frequency of patent foramen ovale by transesophageal echocardiography in patients with cerebral ischemic events versus in subjects in the general population

2001 • 48 citations

Frequency of Migraine Headache Relief Following Patent Foramen Ovale “Closure” Despite Residual Right-to-Left Shunt

2008 • 47 citations

Transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect and patent foramen ovale in adult patients using the Amplatzer occlusion device: No evidence for thrombus deposition with antiplatelet agents

2002 • 41 citations

The puncture technique: A new method for transcatheter closure of patent foramen ovale

2001 • 37 citations

Catheter Closure of the Persistent Foramen Ovale: Mid‐Term Results in 162 Patients

2001 • 37 citations

Percutaneous Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale in Symptomatic Patients

2001 • 34 citations

Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Before and After Transcatheter Occlusion of Patent Foramen Ovale

2007 • 33 citations

Migraine Headache Relief after Percutaneous Transcatheter Closure of Interatrial Communications

2007 • 33 citations

Patent Foramen Ovale Transcatheter Closure Device Thrombosis

2001 • 31 citations

Comparison of contemporary devices used for transcatheter patent foramen ovale closure.

2008 • 30 citations

Patent foramen ovale and atrial septal aneurysm: when and how should they be treated

2002 • 27 citations

Recurrent events following patent foramen ovale closure in patients above 55 years of age with presumed paradoxical embolism

2008 • 26 citations

Perforation of the right atrium and the ascending aorta following percutaneous transcatheter atrial septal defect closure

2005 • 23 citations

Intracardiac thrombus trapped in a patent foramen ovale: a case report

1997 • 21 citations

Patent foramen ovale detected by near-infrared spectroscopy in patients suffering from migraine with aura

2008 • 19 citations

Perforation of Aortic Root as Secondary Complication after Implantation of Patent Foramen Ovale Occlusion Device in a 31‐Year‐Old Woman

2006 • 18 citations

Minimal access closure of patent foramen ovale: is it also recommended for patients with paradoxical emboli?

2002 • 16 citations

Recent developments in migraine

2008 • 10 citations

Caught in the Act: Impending Paradoxical Embolism

2002 • 10 citations