Venous microemboli in patients with artificial heart valves

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 238-241

  Georgiadis, D ^a   Baumgartner, R W ^b   Uhlmann, F ^a   Lindner, A ^a   Zerkowski, H R ^a   Zierz, S ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular circulation; Embolism; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL COMPUTER; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; MICROEMBOLISM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0033038286     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000015962     Document Type: Article

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