Patent foramen ovale and survival in old age

Age Ageing. 2000 Sep;29(5):460-1. doi: 10.1093/ageing/29.5.460.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Age Distribution
  • Age Factors
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Echocardiography
  • Embolism, Paradoxical / etiology*
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / complications*
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / mortality*
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / pathology
  • Humans
  • Prevalence
  • Recurrence
  • Risk Factors
  • Stroke / diagnostic imaging
  • Stroke / etiology*
  • Stroke / prevention & control
  • Survival Analysis
  • Switzerland / epidemiology