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Seven to 55% of ischemic strokes amoung young adults remain etiologically unclaryfied. Lechat and coworkers (N Engl J Med 1988; 318:1148–52) recently had focussed attention on paradoxical embolism via the patent foramen ovale as a more important cause for stroke in the young than previously thought.

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Doherty, C. et al. (1992). Prevention in neurology. In: Abstracts of the 65th congress of the German Society of Neurology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-39699-5_5

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