The recognition of cardiac normal variants as cause for cerebral ischemia: Importance of transesophageal echocardiography;Die Erkennung kardialer Normvarianten als Ursache zerebraler Ischamien: Bedeutung der Transosophagealen Echokardiographie

Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 917-923

  Kucherer H ^a   Ratz, K ^a   Junger E ^a   Hardt, S ^a   El Arousy, M ^a   Winter, R ^a   Kubler W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cerebrovascular embolism; patent foramen ovale; transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0030474471     PISSN: 03005860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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