Treatment of patent foramen ovale and stroke: To close or not to close, that is not yet the question

European Neurology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 205-206

  Sacco, Ralph L ^a,b   Di Tullio, Marco R ^a   Homma, Shunichi ^a  

^a Presbyterian Hospital ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE;

HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030966603     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: 14219913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000117443     Document Type: Article

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