Birke Schneider

TL;DR: Novel structured approaches to diagnosis, risk stratification, and management are presented, with new algorithms to aid decision‐making by practising clinicians in the management of complex cases with ongoing symptoms after recovery, recurrent episodes, or spontaneous presentation.

TL;DR: In patients undergoing transesophageal echocardiography, the prevalence of Chiari's network was 2%, which is consistent with autopsy studies, and may favor persistence of a patent foramen ovale and formation of an atrial septal aneurysm and facilitate paradoxic embolism.

TL;DR: Comparison and color Doppler TEE are complementary and represent a highly sensitive and specific method for diagnosis of a PFO and for estimation of the PFO size and sensitivity and specificity were 89% and 100% respectively.

TL;DR: It is concluded that atrial septal aneurysm is a cardiac abnormality with thromboembolic potential and long-term anticoagulant therapy is indicated in patients with this lesion and a history of an embolic event.

TL;DR: In this large TTC registry, males and females showed a similar clinical profile and in males, physical stress as a trigger event and shock or cardiac arrest as presenting symptoms were more frequent.