Transcranial doppler ultrasonography as a screening technique for detection of a patent foramen ovale before surgery in the sitting position

Anesthesiology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 971-975

  Stendel, Ruediger ^a,b   Gramm, Hans Joachim ^a   Schröder, Klaus ^a   Lober, Conny ^a   Brock, Mario ^a  

^a Department of Neurosurgery ^*

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defects; Contrast echocardiography; Neurosurgical procedure; Paradoxical air embolism; Venous air embolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

EID: 0033775154     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200010000-00016     Document Type: Article

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