St. Mary Medical Center is offering a new level of expertise to Northwest Indiana patients with congenital heart conditions. Cardiologist Hussam Suradi is specially trained in an innovative technique ...

Believe it or not, a “hole in the heart” from a condition called patent foramen ovale (PFO) is mostly harmless and doesn’t need treatment. That is, until a person develops problems with blood clots.

The foramen ovale is a tunnel-like anatomical structure located in the interatrial wall of the fetal heart that enables right-to-left shunting during fetal development. In the majority of people this ...

July 15, 2009 (Cleveland, Ohio) — Surgical closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) newly discovered during cardiothoracic surgery for an unrelated problem may do more harm than good, suggested a ...

Sept. 3, 2003 (Vienna) -- In some migraineurs, headaches appear to be linked to patent foramen ovale (PFO), and in those patients PFO repair can significantly reduce the risk for recurrent migraine ...

Patients who have a heart defect known as patent foramen ovale incidentally discovered and repaired during surgery for a different condition may have an increased odds of postoperative stroke, along ...

Dr. Sridhar Sampath Kumar, has performed Mercy Hospital and Scranton’s first repair of the Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) using a percutaneous procedure, a simple skin puncture. Patients needing repair of ...

ATLANTA, GA (March 13, 2006)--A study presented today during the American College of Cardiology's inaugural Innovation in Intervention: The i2 Summit 2006 in Atlanta, Ga., will answer intriguing ...