Transesophageal echocardiography in patients with ischemic stroke accurately detects significant coronary artery stenosis and often changes management

American Heart Journal

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 916-922

  Voros, Szilard ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a   Samal, Aditya K ^a   Gomez, Camilo R ^b   Liu, Ming W ^a   Puri, Virender K ^a   Jindal, Ajay ^a   Terry, John B ^b   Tulyapronchote, Roekchai ^b   Thakur, Abhash C ^c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034747781     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhj.2001.118745     Document Type: Article

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