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Effect on Migraine of Closure of Cardiac Right-to-Left Shunts to Prevent Reucrrence of Decompression Illness or Stroke or for Haemodynamic Reasons
Lancet 356:1648-1651, Wilmshurst,P.T.,et al, 2000
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Article Abstract
These observations suggest a causal association between right-to-left shunts and migraine with aura. There may be a subgroup of patients who have severe migraine associated with a large right-to-left shunt in whom closure of the atrial defe ct may improve or abolish migraine.
 
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