PFO after Bubble Echo - anybody else?

[Curlyman83]

Hi all! Hope you’re keeping well. I’ve recently had a bubble echo undertaken by my cardiologist and it’s come back saying that I have a PFO. He wants to have keyhole surgery performed on me (an umbrella like contraption is inserted apparently) to close the hole as it’s been identified as the cause of my TIA in February.

Just wondering if anyone else has suffered from this (apparently 1/3 of the population has one but doesn’t even know it) and what steps they undertook to correct it.

Thanks in advance

[10gingercats]

I had mine closed in 2010 . It is a very well developed procedure.I had had a TIA /embolism and the cardiologist thought it best to close it .Apparently some cardiologist ignore it ....at your peril so you are lucky your cardiol. wants to close it .I went in to hospital. The John radcliffe in Oxford at 7.30.am had the op at 1pm. and came home at 9pm that night straight to bed and up the next day feeling brilliant!

[Curlyman83 in reply to 10gingercats]

Thanks Gingercats. My cardiologist is a young fella but really thorough. He’s fuming with my previous cardiologist as he implanted my ICD before an MRI could be arranged.