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ReviewJournal of cardiovascular echography

How to Understand Patent Foramen Ovale Clinical Significance - Part II: Therapeutic Strategies in Cryptogenic Stroke.

Gabriella Falanga, Scipione Carerj, Giuseppe Oreto, Bijoy Khandheria, Concetta Zito

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Review in Journal of cardiovascular echography. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Gabriella FalangaCardiology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University Hospital Policlinico G. Martino, Messina, Italy.
Scipione CarerjCardiology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University Hospital Policlinico G. Martino, Messina, Italy.
Giuseppe OretoCardiology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University Hospital Policlinico G. Martino, Messina, Italy.
Bijoy KhandheriaAurora Sinai/Aurora St. Luke's Medical Centers, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Milwaukee, WI 53215, USA.
Concetta ZitoCardiology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University Hospital Policlinico G. Martino, Messina, Italy.
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico "G. Martino" · ITAurora St. Luke's Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the first part of this review, we reminded that patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a slit or tunnel-like passage in the interatrial septum occurring in approximately 25% of the population and that a number of conditions have been linked to its presence, the most important being cryptogenic stroke (CS) and migraine. We have also shown how, in the setting of neurological events, it is not often clear whether the PFO is pathogenically-related to the index event or an incidental finding, and therefore we thought to provide some useful key points for understanding PFO clinical significance in a case by case evaluation. The controversy about PFO pathogenicity has consequently prompted a paradigm shift of research interest from medical therapy with antiplatelets or anticoagulants to percutaneous transcatheter closure, in secondary prevention. Observational data and meta-analysis of observational studies previously suggested that PFO closure with a device was a safe procedure with a low recurrence rate of stroke, as compared to medical therapy. However, so far, published randomized controlled trials (CLOSURE I

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Cryptogenic strokemedical therapypatent foramen ovalepercutaneous transcatheter closure

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PMID28465931
PMCPMC5353430
OpenAlexW2288610945

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