How should patients with patent foramen ovale be managed?

Heart

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 242-244

  Alp, N ^a   Clarke, N ^a   Banning, A P ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; WARFARIN;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034758371     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heart.85.3.242     Document Type: Editorial

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