During an embolic stroke, a clot travels from a distant ... or from cardiac sources such as atrial fibrillation, patent foramen ovale, or a hypokinetic left ventricle (Hickey, 2003).

It is not often that three interventional cardiac procedures are completed before the morning coffee break. But at One Welbeck Heart Health, Dr Iqbal Malik, a Consultant Cardiologist at the London ...

Thromboembolic stroke was initially thought to be caused by paradoxical embolism through the PFO. However, after PFO closure, there was still a strong propensity to embolism, which inspired us to look ...

Experts are dismayed, disappointed, and confused, but many say this isn’t the end of cerebral embolic protection for TAVI.

Using cerebral embolic protection devices during transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedures does not reduce a ...

A device designed to remove embolic material—fragments of tissue that can be released into the bloodstream during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)—did not result in a reduction in the ...

Cerebral embolic protection (CEP) devices are designed to stop this debris reaching the brain, and they have been suggested as a solution to reduce stroke risk for TAVI patients. However, evidence ...

Incidence of stroke within 72 hours after TAVI or before discharge, if sooner, came out a similar 2.1% with and 2.2% without cerebral embolic protection (P=0.94), reported Rajesh K. Kharbanda ...

Transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) is associated with procedure-related stroke. Cerebral embolic protection (CEP) devices may reduce embolization to the cerebral circulation and hence ...