California company Cierra intends to get permission to use his unusual instrument, created for the treatment of common heart defect, as well as to eliminate chronic migraines.
A little earlier a doctor surgically eliminate widespread heart defect, called patent foramen ovale Found a side effect in patients with PFO, which simultaneously suffered from severe migraines regularly, they were migraines after surgery.
Note, PFO fairly common defect, but not particularly dangerous. Many people live with it, unaware of its existence.
Cierra has invented a device that allows you to treat PFO with minimal surgical intervention. Doctors injected a tiny probe PFX Closure System through a vein in the groin and pushing it upward until it enters the upper right chamber of the heart. There PFX Closure System uses a combination of vacuum and radio frequency signals to close and "make" the desired area of heart tissue.
PFX Closure System well in clinical trials and is expected to be approved in 2006. But at the same time Cierra hopes that its device will be used for the treatment of chronic migraines, which are likely in many cases it is caused by the PFO.
Although, strictly speaking, the relationship between the two diseases has not yet been proved. There is only a hypothesis, which describes the penetration of blood cells, deprived of oxygen from the right atrium to the left and then - in the brain.
A little earlier a doctor surgically eliminate widespread heart defect, called patent foramen ovale Found a side effect in patients with PFO, which simultaneously suffered from severe migraines regularly, they were migraines after surgery.
Note, PFO fairly common defect, but not particularly dangerous. Many people live with it, unaware of its existence.
Cierra has invented a device that allows you to treat PFO with minimal surgical intervention. Doctors injected a tiny probe PFX Closure System through a vein in the groin and pushing it upward until it enters the upper right chamber of the heart. There PFX Closure System uses a combination of vacuum and radio frequency signals to close and "make" the desired area of heart tissue.
PFX Closure System well in clinical trials and is expected to be approved in 2006. But at the same time Cierra hopes that its device will be used for the treatment of chronic migraines, which are likely in many cases it is caused by the PFO.
Although, strictly speaking, the relationship between the two diseases has not yet been proved. There is only a hypothesis, which describes the penetration of blood cells, deprived of oxygen from the right atrium to the left and then - in the brain.
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