Association between right-to-left shunts and brain lesions in sport divers

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1058-1060

  Gerriets, Tibo ^a   Tetzlaff, Kay ^b   Hutzelmann, Alfred ^b   Liceni, Thomas ^b   Kopiske, Gerrit ^b   Struck, Niklas ^b   Reuter, Michael ^b   Kaps, Manfred ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY GIESSEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Diving; Magnetic resonance imaging; Patent foramen ovale; Silent brain lesions; Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography; Ultrasound contrast agent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAS EMBOLISM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPORT; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0141456025     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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