Diagnosis of intracardiac thrombi by various imaging techniques and activation of platelets and coagulation-fibrinolysis in patients with cardioembolic stroke

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 429-435

  Uchiyama, Shinichiro ^a   Yamazaki, Masako ^a   Iwata, Makoto ^a   Maruyama, Shoichi ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Toda Central General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

cardioembolic stroke; coagulation fibrinolysis; echocardiography; intracardiac thrombi; platelet function

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD COAGULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET ACTIVATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029784103     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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