Patent foramen ovale in children: Unique pediatric challenges and lessons learned from adult literature

• Main Authors: Sunil Saharan (Author), Joseph Vettukattil (Author), Aarti Bhat (Author), Venu Amula (Author), Manish Bansal (Author), Devyani Chowdhury (Author), Umesh Dyamenahalli (Author), Saurabh Kumar Gupta (Author), Bibhuti Das (Author), T K Susheel Kumar (Author), Ashok Muralidaran (Author), Kalyani Trivedi (Author), Sethuraman Swaminathan (Author), Neha Bansal (Author), Unnati Doshi (Author), Arvind Hoskoppal (Author), Seshadri Balaji (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a frequent incidental finding during echocardiography in otherwise healthy children. In most healthy children with a diagnosis of isolated incidental PFO, no further follow-up or intervention is necessary. In some children, PFO is associated with certain clinical synd...