Recurrent cerebrovascular events associated with patent foramen ovale, atrial septal aneurysm, or both

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 345, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 1740-1746

  Mas, Jean Louis ^a   Arquizan, Caroline ^a   Lamy, Catherine ^a   Zuber, Mathieu ^a   Cabanes, Laure ^c   Derumeaux, Geneviève ^b   Coste, Joël ^b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER SAINTE ANNE   (France)

^b Rouen University ^*  (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SIDE EFFECT; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASPIRIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RECURRENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035857141     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa011503     Document Type: Article

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