Surprising facts about PFOs from the land mark study by Hagen

It was in 1984   this paper came from mayo clinic proceedings . Hagen PT, Scholz DG, Edwards WD. Incidence and size of patent foramen ovale during the first 10 decades of life: an autopsy study of 965 normal hearts. Mayo Clin Proc. 1984;59:17-20. When interventional   cardiology was not even in infancy . Now it remains the only data base of nearly 100o hearts  studied  after autopsy . After reading the article  I got  few surprises The mean  incidence  is 27.3 % of general population ( That is  27 crore people with PFO  in India ) In first three decades it goes up to 40 % . PFOs size increase with age  due to stretch of inter atrial septum It measures 3.4mm  in the first decade and it can grow up to 5.8 mm in later decades . http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0025-6196/PIIS0025619611632606.pdf Mayo clinic continues to be pioneers in  providing vital  research about PFO Following  is another excellent review article  on PFO and stroke
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: cardiology -congenital heart disease autopsy study on pft hagen 1984 mayo clinic proceedings patent foramaen ovale pfo stretched pfo Source Type: blogs