Warfarin, aspirin and microembolic signals in the acute phase of stroke in a patient with mechanical heart valves

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 182-183

  Del Sette, Massimo ^a   Angeli, Silvia ^a   Gandolfo, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Aspirin; Microembolic signals; Platelets; Prosthetic heart valves; Transcranial Doppler; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MICROEMBOLISM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; WARFARIN;

EID: 0031921847     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000015844     Document Type: Article

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