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Characteristics of Patent Foramen Ovale Associated with Cryptogenic Stroke:A Biplane Transesophageal Echocardiographic Study
Stroke 25:582-586, Homma,S.,et al, 1994
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Article Abstract
Patients with cryptogenic stroke have larger patent foramen ovale with more extensive right-to-left interatrial shunting than patients with stroke of determined cause.Transesophageal echocardiographically identifiable characteristics of patent foramen ovale may be important in defining the clinical significance of individual patent foramina.
 
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