Comparison of transcranial contrast Doppler sonography and transesophageal contrast echocardiography for the detection of patent foramen ovale in young stroke patients

The American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 381-384

  Job, Frank P ^a   Ringelstein, E Bernd ^a   Grafen, Yvonne ^a   Flachskampf, Frank A ^a   Doherty, Christopher ^a   Stockmanns, Andreas ^a   Hanrath, Peter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FORAMEN OVALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0027932157     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(94)90407-3     Document Type: Article

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