Freddy M. Abi-Samra, MD

A Practical Approach to Syncope: Clinical Evaluation

05/02/2010

Syncope, the transient loss of consciousness and postural tone with spontaneous recovery, is one of the most frequent and frustrating symptom complexes with which patients and physicians alike have to cope. Its myriad causes can render...

Syncope, the transient loss of...

05/02/2010

EP Lab Digest

Frequency of Atrial Tachyarrhythmias following Transcatheter Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale

08/01/2008

Stephen R. Ramee , MD;

Christopher J. White , DO, MD;

Freddy M. Abi-Samra , MD;

Jamshid Alaeddini , MD;

Georges Feghali , MD;

Stephen Jenkins , MD;

Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a frequent finding in young patients with cryptogenic stroke.1–4 PFO has also been related to migraine,5 platypnea-orthodoxia syndrome (condition in which shortness of breath and hypoxemia occur when upright and...

Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology