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Article: Trial data awaited on PFO closure for migraine relief.(Pain Medicine)(patent foramen ovale)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. -- Existing data suggest that a subset of migraine patients may benefit from closure of their patent foramen ovale, Dr. David W. Dodick said during a symposium sponsored by the American Headache Society.
However, any clinical decision of the merits of surgical closure of a patent foramen ovale for patients with migraine should await the results of a number of ongoing safety and efficacy trials, he stressed.
Closures are being done with regularity as a treatment for migraines in the United States and Europe despite the lack of safety and efficacy data. "This [procedure] is gathering momentum, to say the least. We have a responsibility to ...