Patent foramen ovale closure or medical therapy for cryptogenic ischemic stroke: an updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Background Previous randomized controlled trials (RCT) failed to demonstrate benefits of patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure (PFO-C) over medical therapy (MT) for secondary prevention of cryptogenic ischemic stroke. Three recently published RCTs, however, turned out positive for PFO-C and warrant an...

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Veröffentlicht in:Clinical research in cardiology 2018-09, Vol.107 (9), p.745-755
Hauptverfasser: Schulze, Volker, Lin, Yingfeng, Karathanos, Athanasios, Brockmeyer, Maximilian, Zeus, Tobias, Polzin, Amin, Perings, Stefan, Kelm, Malte, Wolff, Georg
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