FOQUS scans the whole brain for emboli in 40 seconds and can be performed in physician offices or diagnostic centers BURL Concepts is a medical technology company dedicated to developing and ...

The use of a robotic-assisted device to perform transcranial Doppler ultrasound greatly improved the detection of right-to-left cardiac shunts in patients with presumed embolic strokes compared with ...

Rochester, MN - A new case series of patients with a previous stroke suggests that transcatheter device closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) and atrial septal defect (ASD) is safe and eliminated ...

Transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasound is not only better than transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) at identifying patent foramen ovale (PFO), it also better predicts the risk of embolic events at 5 ...

Dr. Zsolt Garami, medical director of the vascular ultrasound lab at Houston Methodist Hospital, puts it very straightforward: Transcranial Doppler (TCD) is one of the least understood, rarely ...

A foramen ovale is a hole in the heart. The small hole naturally exists in babies who are still in the womb for fetal circulation. It should close soon after birth. If it doesn’t close, the condition ...

Evidence-based recommendations on percutaneous closure of the patent foramen ovale for the prevention of cerebral embolic stroke. This involves placing a small device into the heart to close the hole.

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- BURL Concepts, a private MedTech company focused on the development of a state-of-the-art, rapid, automated and affordable test for evaluating cerebral blood ...

—Data published in Stroke show that NovaGuide was about three times more likely to detect right to left shunt (RLS) and large RLS than transthoracic echocardiography (TTE)— —NovaGuide, a ...