B Meier, JE Lock - Circulation, 2003 - Am Heart Assoc The foramen ovale is a pivotal feature during intrauterine life. As depicted in
Figure 1, the interatrial septum primum on the left side and the interatrial
septum secundum on the right side maintain a central hole after having ... Cited by 190 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
- ►oxfordjournals.org SR Torti, M Billinger, M Schwerzmann, R … - European heart journal, 2004 - Eur Soc Cardiology Methods In 230 scuba divers (age 39±8 years), contrast trans-oesophageal
echocardiography (TEE) was performed for the detection and size grading (0–3)
of PFO. Prior to TEE, the study individuals answered a detailed ... Cited by 78 - Related articles - All 6 versions
- ►bmj.com M Schwerzmann, S Windecker, A Wahl, H Mehta … - British Medical Journal, 2004 - heart.bmj.com Results: There were more procedural complications in the STAR than in the
Amplatzer group (8/50 v 1/50, p = 0.01). More than one device placement attempt
was an independent predictor of procedural complications (odds ratio (OR) ... Cited by 76 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►bmj.com MJ Landzberg, P Khairy - British Medical Journal, 2004 - heart.bmj.com The foramen ovale, while vital to our formative development, assumes mischievous
potential if it persists post-utero. Similar to other vestigial structures,
presence of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) appears to carry no physiologic or ... Cited by 61 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
SC Horton, TJ Bunch - Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2004 - mayoclinicproceedings.com A patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a frequent remnant of embryological development
with clinical importance in thromboembolism, paradoxical embolism, stroke,
platypnea- orthodeoxia, decompression sickness, and migraine head- ache. ... Cited by 61 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 11 versions
- ►bmj.com B Meier - British Medical Journal, 2005 - heart.bmj.com The first atrial septal defects (ASDs) were closed percutaneously in 1974 and
reports about their closure published in 1976. 1 In the 1980s the Rashkind
occluder was introduced and revived the interest in the topic, 2 focusing ... Cited by 56 - Related articles - All 7 versions
S Windecker, B Meier - ACC Current Journal Review, 2002 - Elsevier The atrial septum is formed by two overlapping embryological structures, the
septum primum left and the septum secundum right. The foramen ovale is an
opening in the atrial septum secundum, with the septum primum serving as a ... Cited by 26 - Related articles - All 5 versions
- ►oxfordjournals.org G Souteyrand, P Motreff, JR Lusson, R … - European Journal of Echocardiography, 2006 - ejechocard.oxfordjournals.org Add to CiteULike Add to Connotea Add to Del.icio.us What's this? ... Received
14 January 2005; received in revised form 22 April 2005; accepted after revision
27 April 2005. ... Aims The comparison of three imaging methods to ... Cited by 26 - Related articles - All 6 versions
S Angeli, M Del Sette, M Beelke, GP Anzola, E … - Neurological Sciences, 2001 - Springer The presence of right-to-left intracardiac shunt (RLS), in most cases sustained
by a patent foramen ovale (PFO), is a known risk factor for ischemic stroke
[1–6]. Indeed, the lit- erature reports a significantly higher prevalence ... Cited by 26 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
M Schwerzmann, C Seiler - Swiss Medical Weekly, 2001 - smw.ch Scuba diving has become a popular leisure time activity with distinct risks to
health owing to its physical characteristics. Knowledge of the be- haviour of
any mixture of breathable gases under increased ambient pressure is crucial ... Cited by 25 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 21 versions
