Association between atrial septal aneurysm and patent foramen ovale in young patients with recent stroke and normal carotid arteries

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 4-10

  Mattioli, Anna Vittoria ^b   Bonetti, Lorenzo ^c   Aquilina, Michele ^c   Oldani, Antonio ^c   Longhini, Carlo ^a   Mattioli, Giorgio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Atrial septal aneurysm; Patent foramen ovale; Stroke; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; ATRIAL SEPTAL ANEURYSM; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORPHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 0037242921     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000067114     Document Type: Article

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