Spontaneous echo contrast and hemorheologic abnormalities in cerebrovascular disease

Stroke

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 1564-1569

  Briley, Dennis P ^a   Giraud, George D ^a   Beamer, Nancy B ^a   Spear, Eugene M ^a   Grauer, Susan E ^a   Edwards, James M ^a   Clark, Wayne M ^a   Sexton, Gary J ^a   Coull, Bruce M ^a  

^a PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardioembolic stroke; Echocardiography; Erythrocytes; Fibrinogen

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; FIBRINOGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PLASMA VISCOSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; GAMMA-GLOBULINS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 0027956230     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.25.8.1564     Document Type: Article

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