Outcome of patients with cryptogenic stroke and patent foramen ovale

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 347-350

  Nedeltchev, K ^a   Arnold, M ^a   Wahl, A ^b   Sturzenegger, M ^a   Vella, E E ^a   Windecker, S ^b   Meier, B ^b   Mattle, H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Cardiology ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ANTIVITAMIN K;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0036188598     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.72.3.347     Document Type: Article

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