Welcome to “Watches You Should Know,” a bi-weekly (the once-every-two-weeks kind) column highlighting little-known watches new and old that have interesting stories or have had a surprising impact on ...

Parmigiani presented its new Ovale collection last month at the St. Tropez home of contemporary art dealer, Enrico Navarra. Speaking in front of a wall-size Keith Haring painting, Michel Parmigiani ...

Whether closure of a patent foramen ovale is effective in the prevention of recurrent ischemic stroke in patients who have had a cryptogenic stroke is unknown. We conducted a trial to evaluate whether ...

ABSTRACT: In situ cross-sectional morphology of the foramen ovale was studied after rapid whole-body freezing of the fetal and neonatal rat. In the fetus, the foramen ovale was open widely toward the ...

In the womb, fetuses have an opening in the upper chambers of the heart known as a foramen ovale. While the opening is supposed to close naturally after birth, for many it never does. That's when it's ...

Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is the most common congenital heart abnormality of fetal origin and is present in approximately ∼25% of the worldwide adult population. PFO is the consequence of failed ...

The prevalence of patent foramen ovale among patients with cryptogenic stroke is higher than that in the general population. Closure with a percutaneous device is often recommended in such patients, ...