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Learn from key opinion leaders by viewing on-demand digital content on a variety of topics related to PFO closure.

PFO closure virtual education

Easily access educational content at your convenience. The on-demand webinars below are presented by key opinion leaders on topics related to patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure.

Stroke prevention update: A focus on PFO Closure

Dr. Saver covers the recent practice advisory update published by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) on secondary stroke prevention and its recommendation of PFO closure over medical management alone for the appropriately selected patients.

Jeffrey Saver, MD
Professor and Associate Vice-Chair of Neurology, UCLA
Director of the UCLA Comprehensive Stroke Center
Los Angeles, CA

Optimizing PFO Management: Lessons from Brain-Heart Teams

This webinar features two vascular neurologists at different institutions sharing their individual approaches to collaborating with cardiology to help reduce the risk of a recurrent stroke in patients with a PFO.

Nicole Gonzales, MD
Professor of Neurology
UT Health – The University of Texas
Health Science Center of Houston

Karen Orjuela, MD
Assistant Professor, Neurology
Associate Program Director, Neurohospitalist Fellowship
University of Colorado

Individualizing PFO Stroke Prevention: “The Clot Thickens” in the Age of COVID-19

Dr. Ning shares her approach to personalizing treatment for stroke patients using PFO-specific risk factors, and she provides an update in the age of COVID-19.

MingMing Ning, MD
Co-Director, Cardio-Neurology Division
Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Asia Pacific Heart Brain Summit - 2020

Watch Abbott’s 2020 Asia Pacific Heart & Brain Summit where we work with a multi-disciplinary group of physicians to advance device-based stroke risk reduction therapies in Asia Pacific, with a focus on the latest clinical guidelines and clinical best practices.

Prof. Dr. Hans-Christoph Diener

Professor of Neurology Emeritus, Medical Faculty of the University Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Germany

Prof. Thorsten Lewalter

Professor of Internal Medicine-Cardiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Dr. Song Hai Qing

Chief Physician in the Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital, China

Dr. Matthew Brooks

Interventional Cardiologist, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia

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