PFO and Various Types of Surgery

European position paper on the management of patients with patent foramen ovale. Part II - Decompression sickness, migraine, arterial deoxygenation syndromes and select high-risk clinical conditions

“…However, to date, no clinical studies have been published, and questions about the timing of surgery post intervention remain unanswered, especially regarding effective sealing of the defect, the endothelialisation of the device, and the duration of antiplatelet therapy 123 .…”