40% HAVE A PFO (PATENT FORAMEN OVALE) – DO YOU?
Do you get Jet Lag, fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, confusion, headaches, rapid heartbeat, or feel overheated, or have had an unexplained stroke, heart attack, or partial blindness? PFO (PATENT FORAMEN OVALE) affects up to 40% of all adults in the world and was first described by Claudius Galen in 200 A.D. It’s a hole in the upper chambers of the heart that usually closes during early infancy. Normally the blood travels from the right side of the heart through the lungs to the left side of the heart and then into the rest of the body before returning back to the right side of the heart. This allows the lungs to pick up oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide (gas exchange), filter clots/particles out of the circulation, and cool the blood, and, therefore the body. A PFO has many other:
Important Actionable Clinical Physiological Consequences of a Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) other than Stroke
