Top 75 Migraine and Headache Questions, #51

By Ask the Clinician, Health Guide Sunday, April 08, 2007

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Full Question:Do you have any information of a connection between heart murmur caused by the tissue flaps in the heart's upper chamber, called a PFO tunnel, not closing properly after birth, and migraines. Occasionally blood can be recirculated before it is cleansed by the lungs. Operations for...

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Top 75 Migraine and Headache Questions, #50

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Debbie

8/31/07 11:40am

I had the surgery. I still have migraines but not as many. I was having mini-strokes and there was great concern that I would have a stroke. I have incurred memory loss.

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