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A Narrative and Critical Review of Randomized-Controlled Clinical Trials on Patent Foramen Ovale Closure for Reducing the Risk of Stroke Recurrence

Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a common cardiac anatomic variant that has been increasingly found in young (<60 years) cryptogenic stroke patients. Despite initial neutral randomized-controlled clinical trials (RCTs), there have been four recent RCTs providing consistent data in favor of the effic...

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Autores principales: Safouris, Apostolos, Kargiotis, Odysseas, Psychogios, Klearchos, Kalyvas, Pericles, Ikonomidis, Ignatios, Drakopoulou, Maria, Toutouzas, Konstantinos, Tsivgoulis, Georgios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7326015/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32655469
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2020.00434