Lacunar stroke: Transoesophageal echocardiographic factors influencing long-term prognosis

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 325-330

  Kazui, S ^a   Levi, C R ^a   Jones, E F ^b   Quang, L ^a   Calafiore, P ^b   Donnan, Geoffrey A ^a  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiac source of embolism; Lacunar stroke; Long term prognosis; Recurrence; Transoesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0035205168     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000047729     Document Type: Article

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