Transesophageal echocardiography in cryptogenic stroke and patent foramen ovale: analysis of putative high-risk features from the risk of paradoxical embolism database.

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Published in Circ Cardiovasc Imaging on November 08, 2013

Authors

Benjamin S Wessler1, David E Thaler, Robin Ruthazer, Christian Weimar, Marco R Di Tullio, Mitchell S V Elkind, Shunichi Homma, Jennifer S Lutz, Jean-Louis Mas, Heinrich P Mattle, Bernhard Meier, Krassen Nedeltchev, Federica Papetti, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Mark Reisman, Joaquín Serena, David M Kent

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA.

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