[Shenzhen Business Daily] (Reporter Zhao Hongfei) A few days ago, the Eighth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University admitted 6 cases of young and middle-aged patients with repeated headaches in a week. Among them, a 28-year-old woman has already suffered a second stroke. What causes these young and middle-aged people to have headaches and strokes?
Chief Physician Wei Wenbin and Deputy Chief Physician Liang Jianwen of the Department of Vascular Disease and Structural Heart Disease at the Eighth Hospital of CUHK combined with right heart contrast echocardiography and transcranial Doppler (TCD) foaming examination, and found that these The patients all share a common congenital heart problem: a patent foramen ovale.
It is this extra “heart and eye” that causes repeated headaches, dizziness and premature strokes. Wei Wenbin, chief physician, introduced that the incidence of patent foramen ovale (PFO) in adults is 20%-25%, which can be treated by surgery. According to reports, percutaneous patent foramen ovale closure is a minimally invasive surgery. It does not require surgery or general anesthesia. The surgical effect is accurate and the recovery is fast. There are repeated headaches, especially those that occur after exertion or emotional agitation, and premature stroke. Citizens and friends can go to the hospital for screening.