Patent foramen ovale: An underrated risk for divers?;Persistierendes Foramen ovale: Ein unterschätztes Risiko für Taucher?

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 129, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 27-30

  Lier, H ^a,b   Schroeder, S ^a   Hering, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms U   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROX; PICRIC ACID;

COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DECOMPRESSION; GAS EMBOLISM; HEART FORAMEN OVALE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK; SCREENING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VASCULAR PATENCY;

DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0347126576     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-812652     Document Type: Review

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