“…Thrombus developed on eight different types of transcatheter devices. All commercially available devices had at least one reported case of thrombosis: PFO-Star (17 patients) [4,5,8,15], ASDOS (13 patients) [5,7,[13][14][15], CardioSEAL Starflex (9 patients) [5,12,18,20], CardioSEAL (5 patients) [5,9,16,17,19], Angel Wings (4 patients) [5,17], Amplatzer (4 patients) [5,6,10,15], Buttoned (1 patient) [11], and Helex (1 patient) [5]. Patient age was available in half of the cases (mean age, 44.2 Ϯ 9.8 years).…”