To Reduce Stroke with PFO Closure, Respect the Shunt

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To Reduce Stroke with PFO Closure, Respect the Shunt Arka Chatterjee, MD, Mark A. Law, MD The American Journal of Medicine Volume 131, Issue 6, Pages e261-e262 (June 2018) DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2018.01.007 Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions

Figure Regression plot of log rate ratio for recurrent stroke with percentage of patients in the pooled studies with moderate/large right-to-left shunt. The American Journal of Medicine 2018 131, e261-e262DOI: (10.1016/j.amjmed.2018.01.007) Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions