Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care (Aug 2012)
Wilmshurst asks AHA and Circulation for full disclosure
Abstract
No abstract available. Article Truncated at 150 words. Dr Peter Wilmshurst alleges in a letter forwarded to Heartwire that the American Heart Association (AHA) and the editors of its journal Circulation have failed to properly disclose conflicts of interest of some of the authors of the infamous Migraine Intervention with STARflex Technology (MIST) trial of the patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure device (1). Wilmshurst was portrayed in SWJPCC on April 27, 2012 in our Profiles of Medical Courage series (2). The now-defunct company tried to sue Wilmshurst for alleging that NMT pushed him out of his role as investigator, manipulated some of the data to make the device's performance look better than it really was, and hid the company's relationships to some of the study's authors. Wilmshurst maintains that Circulation, which published the MIST results in 2008 (3), still must acknowledge that NMT employees and investors helped to write the paper and that none of the investigators were…
