A Gold Coast Private cardiologist has made a potentially life saving breakthrough in stroke prevention.
Associate Professor Ross Sharpe and sonographer, Assistant Professor Dan Traves, are the first in Australia to use contrast Trans Cranial Doppler Ultrasound (cTCD) to test if a patient has a Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO).
“cTCD is a better, cheaper, safer and quicker test to detect a PFO than the current standard procedure,” said Dr Sharpe.
