Doppler microembolic signals during cardiac surgery: Comparison between arterial line and middle cerebral artery

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1638-1639

  Georgiadis, Dimitrios ^a,b   Hempel, Antonia ^a   Baumgartner, Ralf W ^b   Zerkowski, Hans Reinhard ^c  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA CLAMPING; ARTICLE; BLOOD FILTER; BRAIN; CANNULATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MICROEMBOLISM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0344062806     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5223(03)01197-8     Document Type: Article

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