Spontaneous echo contrast caused by platelet and leukocyte aggregates?

Stroke

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1127-1133

  Zotz, Rainer J ^a,c   Müller, Matthias ^a   Genth Zotz, Sabine ^b   Darius, Harald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG HEART CENTER   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Klinikum Schwalmstadt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardioembolic stroke; Leukocytes; Platelet activation; Spontaneous echo contrast; Stroke prevention

Indexed keywords

CD14 ANTIGEN; CD42 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PADGEM PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LEUKOCYTE AGGREGATION; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENOUS BLOOD;

EID: 0034851243     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.32.5.1127     Document Type: Article

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