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Patent Foramen Ovale Closure In San Jose
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You will receive local anesthesia or a light sedative. You will be awake but should not feel any discomfort during the procedure. During PFO closure, your doctor will implant a closure device that plugs your PFO using a catheter that is threaded through a vein in your groin and guided to your heart.
Your healthcare provider may also repair the PFO by transcatheter repair or heart surgery. A transcatheter repair is less invasive than a surgical repair.
Procedures to close a patent foramen ovale include: Device closure. In this procedure, the provider inserts a thin, flexible tube called a catheter into a blood vessel in the groin area. The catheter tip has a device to plug the PFO . Surgical closure. In this heart surgery, the surgeon uses stitches to close the PFO .
If a PFO exists, a little blood can flow between the atria. A robotic-assisted patent foramen ovale repair is a type of minimally invasive surgery. Minimally invasive means that the surgery uses smaller cuts (incisions) than a traditional open heart surgery. Recovery may be easier and faster.
People who do not respond to medication may need a minimally invasive, catheter-based procedure. Your interventional cardiologist closes the PFO with a small closure device. This is done in a cardiac catheterization (cath) laboratory.
If you were born with a hole in your heart that never closed, known as a patent foramen ovale (PFO), you may need a procedure to correct it. Penn Medicine cardiologists use interventional techniques to close a patent foramen ovale without opening your chest for surgery.
A PFO closure is only utilized if a patient has experienced a stroke, and other causes of stroke and blood clots have been ruled out. A patient with a PFO without a history of stroke would not require a PFO closure and may continue to live a healthy life with this incidental finding.
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There are two procedures to close a patent foramen ovale are cardiac catheterization and robotic surgical repair. For children needing treatment for a PFO, we use cardiac catheterization to close the defect with a small device.What is the PFO closure procedure? Learn about patent foramen ovale (PFO), risk of PFO-associated stroke, and treatment options for PFO closure. ICE-GUIDED PERCUTANEOUS PFO CLOSURE. An estimated 700,000 people experience an ischemic stroke in the United States every year. A newer technology allows for PFO closure with a simple stitch placed in the heart. Patent foramen ovale closure is a procedure to close a hole in the heart. We use minimally invasive approaches to treat PFO without open-chest surgery. A newer technology allows for PFO closure with a simple stitch placed in the heart.