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Cryptogenic Stroke and PFO

Cryptogenic Stroke and PFO with Dr. Mustafa Ahmed, Dr. Soo Young Kwon, and Dr. Ekaterina Bakradze

September 28, 2021 by Alain Bouchard, MD 6 Comments

When a patient has a PFO, or hole in the heart, doctors are left with a decision: to close or not to close. Dr. Alain Bouchard and Dr. Mustafa Ahmed discuss cryptogenic stroke and PFO, as well as the role of the heart-brain team, with Dr. Soo Young Kwon and Dr. Ekaterina Bakradze, both of the neurology department at UAB.

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Filed Under: Featured Articles, Podcast Tagged With: cryptogenic stroke, patent foramen ovale, PFO, Stroke

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  1. Charles Ferguson says

    October 2, 2021 at 6:16 am

    Very efficiently written information. It will be beneficial to anybody who utilizes it, including me. Keep up the good work. For sure i will check out more posts. This site seems to get a good amount of visitors.

    Reply
    • Alain Bouchard, MD says

      February 18, 2022 at 12:42 pm

      Thank you for your comments!

      Reply
  2. Paul Repak says

    December 17, 2021 at 4:19 pm

    I just found and listeened to your podcast on Cryptogenic Strokd and PFO.
    I am a PFO closure patient. I had what was detemined to be a TIA stroke in August 2016 at age 65. A bubble test showed that I had a large PFO. I have a very active lifestyle, being very active as a wilderness guide and search and rescue crew leader in NY State. I also am a long time marathon canoe racer, having recently completed several 500 mile and 1000 mile canoe races in the Yukon and Alaska. And for 25 years completing the 90 mile Adirondack canoe race.

    After the TIA (with no apparent perment effects), I was placed on Xeralto and told I could not stray more than 2 hours from any medical facility. That is no life for me. Luckily some of my canoeing partners work in the hospital for a well known local cardiac surgeon. In November of 2016, Dr Green at St Joseph’s Hospital in Syracuse perfomed a surgical PFO closure, using sutures only, doing so remotely through my ribs, without installing any closure device. At age 70 now, I continue to be very active outdoors, including another Yukon canoe race in 2017 (7 months after pfo closure) and 90 mile Adirondack canoe races in every year since then.

    Reply
    • Alain Bouchard, MD says

      February 18, 2022 at 12:41 pm

      Great story with a great outcome. A PFO closure can not only prevent a subsequent stroke in a patient with a large PFO but like in your case, really improve quality of life!

      Reply
    • doramasvip says

      September 8, 2022 at 4:44 am

      Thanks for taking the time to post such valuable information.

      Reply
      • Dr. Mustafa Ahmed says

        September 11, 2022 at 1:54 pm

        So glad you found it helpful.

        Reply

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Alain Bouchard, MD

Dr. Alain Bouchard is a clinical cardiologist at Cardiology Specialists of Birmingham, AL. He is a native of Quebec, Canada and trained in Internal Medicine at McGill University in Montreal. He continued as a Research Fellow at the Montreal Heart Institute. He did a clinical cardiology fellowship at the University of California in San Francisco. He joined the faculty at the University of Alabama Birmingham from 1986 to 1990. He worked at CardiologyPC and Baptist Medical Center at Princeton from 1990-2019. He is now part of the Cardiology Specialists of Birmingham at St. Vincent's Health System, Ascension.

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