Mortality from pulmonary embolism after acute stroke: Can we do better?

Age and Ageing

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 159-161

  Kelly, James ^a   Rudd, Tony ^a   Lewis, Roger R ^a   Hunt, Beverley J ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10A INHIBITOR; DESULFATOHIRUDIN; FONDAPARINUX; HEPARIN; IODINE 125; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MELAGATRAN; PENTASACCHARIDE; RECOMBINANT HIRUDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPRESSION; DATA ANALYSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DYSPHASIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPHYLAXIS; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; SUDDEN DEATH; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; TACHYPNEA; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VEINS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0036274382     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/31.3.159     Document Type: Article

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