Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Critique of Closure or Medical Therapy for Cryptogenic Stroke With Patent Foramen Ovale: The Hole Truth?” | Zendy

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Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Critique of Closure or Medical Therapy for Cryptogenic Stroke With Patent Foramen Ovale: The Hole Truth?”

Author(s) -

David E. Thaler,

Andreas Wahl

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.112.680637

Subject(s) - patent foramen ovale , medicine , paradoxical embolism , closure (psychology) , stroke (engine) , general surgery , law , migraine , mechanical engineering , political science , engineering

We appreciate the interest in our editorial and the comments by Dr Furlan. We would like to reiterate our initial comment that those involved in the Evaluation of the STARFlex Septal Closure System in Patients with a Stroke and/or Transient Ischemic Attack due to Presumed Paradoxical Embolism through a Patent Foramen Ovale (CLOSURE-I) trial deserve congratulations for shepherding the trial to completion and providing much needed data into an arena that has long been populated with more opinion than fact. We predicted that not many minds would be changed by CLOSURE-I, which failed to prove a …

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