Simultaneous bilateral contrast transcranial doppler monitoring in patients with intracardiac and intrapulmonary shunts

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-57

  Horner, Susanna ^a   Ni, X S ^a   Weihs, W ^b   Harb, S ^b   Augustin, M ^a   Duft, M ^a   Niederkorn, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b LKH Graz   (Austria)

Author keywords

Contrast transcranial Doppler sonography; Echocardiography; Embolism; Intrapulmonary shunt; Patent foramen ovale; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 0030786384     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(97)05367-7     Document Type: Article

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