ArticleEuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology2021
European position paper on the management of patients with patent foramen ovale. Part II - Decompression sickness, migraine, arterial deoxygenation syndromes and select high-risk clinical conditions.
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- Efficacy of transcatheter patent foramen ovale closure for drug-resistant migraine: initial experience in Japan and long-term outcome.Cardiovascular intervention and therapeutics · 2025Article
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- Treatment of patent foramen ovale.EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2025Review
- Patent foramen ovale as a rare cause of sudden refractory hypoxemia: a case report.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Article
- Clinical efficacy of percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale in children diagnosed with migraine.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Article
- Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO): History, Diagnosis, and Management.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Review
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- Transcatheter PFO closure for cryptogenic stroke: current approaches and future considerations.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Review
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- Correlation between percutaneous patent foramen ovale closure and recurrence of unexplained syncope.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Advances in Percutaneous Patent Foramen Ovale Closure: From the Procedure to the Echocardiographic Guidance.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
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- A systematic transoesophageal echocardiography study of suture-mediated percutaneous patent foramen ovale closure.EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is implicated in the pathogenesis of a number of medical conditions but to date only one official position paper related to left circulation thromboembolism has been published. This interdisciplinary paper, prepared with the involvement of eight European scientific societies, reviews the available evidence and proposes a rationale for decision making for other PFO-related clinical conditions. In order to guarantee a strict evidence-based process, we used a modified grading of recommendations, assessment, development, and evaluation (GRADE) methodology. A critical qualitative and quantitative evaluation of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures was performed, including assessment of the risk/benefit ratio. The level of evidence and the strength of the position statements were weighed and graded according to predefined scales. Despite being based on limited and observational or low-certainty randomised data, a number of position statements were made to frame PFO management in different clinical settings, along with suggestions for new research avenues. This interdisciplinary position paper, recognising the low or very low certainty of existing evidence, provides the first approach to several PFO-related clinical scenarios beyond left circulation thromboembolism and strongly stresses the need for fresh high-quality evidence on these topics.
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