Atherosclerotic disease of the aortic arch as a risk factor for recurrent ischemic stroke

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 334, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 1216-1221

  Amarenco, Pierre ^a  

^a HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN INFARCTION; DEATH; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETINA ARTERY OCCLUSION; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0029871003     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199605093341902     Document Type: Article

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