Cerebrovascular stroke caused by paradoxical embolism during long-distance flights;Paradox-embolische hirninfarkte bei langstreckenflügen

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 196-198

  Foerch, Christian ^a   Kessler, K R ^a   Sitzer, M ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN III; LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT; PROTEIN C; PROTEIN S;

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C RESISTANCE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FLIGHT; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOPHILIA; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS, PATENT; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 0037474188     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-36979     Document Type: Article

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