Expert consensus statement for the management of patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source and patent foramen ovale: A clinical guide by the working group for stroke of the Hellenic Society of Cardiology and the Hellenic Stroke Organization

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² AHEPA University Hospital & European Interbalkan Medical Center, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• ³ Third Department of Cardiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
• ⁴ 1st Cardiology Clinic, Ioannina University Hospital, Ioannina, Greece.
• ⁵ 1st Cardiology Department & Catheterization Laboratory, Naval Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
• ⁶ Department of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
• ⁷ First and Third Department of Cardiology, Athens University School of Medicine, Athens, Greece.
• ⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
• ⁹ Echocardiography Laboratory, European Interbalkan Medical Center, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• ¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, Hippocratio Hospital, Athens, Greece.
• ¹¹ Department of Neurology, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece.
• ¹² First Department of Cardiology, Hippocratio Hospital, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece.
• ¹³ Cardiology Department & Cardiac Catheterization Lab, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece.
• ¹⁴ First Department of Neurology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
• ¹⁵ Catheterization Laboratory, Alexandra General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
• ¹⁶ Hellenic Stroke Organization, Greece.
• ¹⁷ 1st Department of Cardiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.