Response to letters regarding article, "Stroke or transient ischemic attack in patients with transvenous pacemaker or defibrillator and echocardiographically detected patent foramen ovale"

Circulation. 2014 Jul 8;130(2):e13-4. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.009351.

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
³ Division of Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
⁴ Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN.
⁵ Mayo Graduate School of Medicine Visiting Scholars Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
⁶ Department of Statistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
⁷ Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Defibrillators, Implantable*
Female
Foramen Ovale, Patent / diagnostic imaging*
Foramen Ovale, Patent / epidemiology*
Humans
Ischemic Attack, Transient / epidemiology*
Male
Pacemaker, Artificial*
Stroke / epidemiology*
Ultrasonography

Grants and funding

T32 HL007111/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States