HIGHLIGHTS
- who: Scientifica, and Bernhard, Meier from the Cardiovascular Department, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland have published the article: Patent Foramen Ovale and Closure Technique with the Amplatzer Occluder, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 25/06/2014
- what: This points to the main reason why PFOs are to be closed.
SUMMARY
The patent foramen ovale (PFO) has been recognized for over a century as a plausible cause of stroke permitting paradoxical embolism of a per se rather innocuous small venous clot that would go clinically unnoticed if it embolized to the lungs . . .
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