Patent foramen ovale and recurrent stroke: Another paradoxical twist

Circulation

Volumn 105, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 2580-2582

  Halperin, Jonathan L ^a   Fuster, Valentin ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulants; Editorials; Embolism; Shunt; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ANEURYSM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WARFARIN;

EID: 0037024227     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000020353.63751.2F     Document Type: Editorial

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