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Healthy runner suffers stroke at 27 after heart opening links to clot

Boston engineer and runner Patrick Mascoli had a stroke in a gym locker room, and doctors linked it to a patent foramen ovale through which a clot likely reached his brain.

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Boston engineer and runner Patrick Mascoli had a stroke in a gym locker room, and doctors linked it to a patent foramen ovale through which a clot likely reached his brain.