Patent foramen ovale size and embolic brain imaging findings among patients with ischemic stroke

Stroke

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 944-948

  Steiner, Michaela M ^a,d   Di Tullio, Marco R ^a   Rundek, Tanja ^a   Gan, Robert ^a   Chen, Xun ^a,b   Liguori, Chiara ^a   Brainin, Michael ^d   Homma, Shunichi ^a   Sacco, Ralph L ^a,c  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^d DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Echocardiography, transesophageal; Foramen ovale, patent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031971359     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.29.5.944     Document Type: Article

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