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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2024

Patent Foramen Ovale Occlusion in Elderly Patients: Is It Worth It? A Large, Single-Center Retrospective Analysis.

Sebastiano Gili, Giuseppe Calligaris, Giovanni Teruzzi, Giulia Santagostino Baldi, Manuela Muratori, Piero Montorsi, Daniela Trabattoni

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Outcomes of patent foramen ovale closure in patients over 60 years with cryptogenic stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Sebastiano GiliCentro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, 20138 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0542-0448
Giuseppe CalligarisCentro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, 20138 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8991-0956
Giovanni TeruzziCentro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, 20138 Milan, Italy.
Giulia Santagostino BaldiCentro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, 20138 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9933-1632
Manuela MuratoriCentro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, 20138 Milan, Italy.
Piero MontorsiCentro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, 20138 Milan, Italy.
Daniela TrabattoniCentro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, 20138 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6319-4119

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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elderlyoutcomesPFO closure

Identifiers

PMID38930044
PMCPMC11204738

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