Patent Foramen Ovale Closure Versus Medical Therapy for Cryptogenic Ischemic Stroke: A Topical Review

Stroke. 2018 Jun;49(6):1541-1548. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.018153. Epub 2018 May 14.

Authors

Jeffrey L Saver¹, Heinrich P Mattle², David Thaler³

Affiliations

¹ From the Comprehensive Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (J.L.S.) jsaver@mednet.ucla.edu.
² Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Switzerland (H.P.M.).
³ Department of Neurology and Comprehensive Stroke Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA (D.T.).

PMID: 29760277
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.018153

No abstract available

Keywords: aneurysms; cardiologists; embolism; risk; thrombosis.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Brain Ischemia* / prevention & control
Brain Ischemia* / therapy
Cardiac Catheterization / methods
Foramen Ovale, Patent / prevention & control*
Foramen Ovale, Patent / therapy*
Humans
Secondary Prevention
Stroke* / prevention & control
Stroke* / therapy
Treatment Outcome