Editorial: Understanding PFO-associated stroke

• Theodoros Karapanayiotides,
• Vasileios-Arsenios Lioutas,
• Marta Rubiera,
• Gilles Montalescot,
• Panayiotis Mitsias

Affiliations

Theodoros Karapanayiotides

2nd Department of Neurology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

Vasileios-Arsenios Lioutas

Division of Vascular Neurology, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

Marta Rubiera

Stroke Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain

Gilles Montalescot

Institut de Cardiologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Panayiotis Mitsias

Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece