Pseudoxanthoma elasticum lesions and cardiac complications as contributing factors for strokes in β-thalassemia patients

Stroke

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2421-2424

  Aessopos, Athanasios ^a   Farmakis, Dimitrios ^a   Karagiorga, Markisia ^b   Rombos, Ioannis ^a   Loucopoulos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antithrombotic therapy; Heart disease; Risk factors; Stroke; Thalassemia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM; RISK FACTOR; SPLENECTOMY; STROKE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBUS;

EID: 0031440087     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.28.12.2421     Document Type: Article

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