Protruding atherosclerotic aortic plaques and dyslipidaemia: Correlation to subtypes of ischaemic stroke

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 8-12

  Matsumura, Y ^a   Osaki, Y ^a   Fukui, T ^a   Yabe, T ^a   Yamasaki, M ^b   Hamashige, N ^b   Doi, Y ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Chikamori Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortic plaque; Dyslipidaemia; Ischaemic stroke; Transoesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA THROMBOSIS; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIPID ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; APOLIPOPROTEINS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036301495     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euje.2001.0113     Document Type: Article

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