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      Percutaneous patent foramen ovale closure for secondary stroke prevention: Network meta-analysis 

      Tsivgoulis, Georgios; Katsanos, Aristeidis H.; Mavridis, Dimitris; Frogoudaki, Alexandra; Vrettou, Agathi-Rosa; Ikonomidis, Ignatios; Parissis, John; Deftereos, Spyridon; Karapanayiotides, Theodore; Palaiodimou, Lina; Filippatou, Angeliki; Perren, Fabienne; Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios; Alexandrov, Anne W.; Mitsias, Panayiotis D.; Alexandrov, Andrei V. (2018)
      OBJECTIVE: Current guidelines report no benefit for patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure compared to medical treatment in patients with cryptogenic ischemic stroke (IS) or TIA. Two recent randomized controlled clinical trials ...