Microembolic signal detection in patients with symptomatic and asymptomatic lone atrial fibrillation

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 192-196

  Kumral, Emre ^a,b   Balkir, Kaan ^a   Uzuner, Nevzat ^a   Evyapan, Dilek ^a   Nalbantgil, Sanem ^a  

^a Department of Neurology ^*  (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Lone atrial fibrillation; Microembolic signals; Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROEMBOLISM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; TURKEY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0034780563     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000047703     Document Type: Article

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