Isolated pulmonary arteriovenous fistula without Rendu-Osler-Weber disease as a cause of cryptogenic stroke

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 311-313

  Kimura, K ^a   Minematsu, K ^a   Nakajima, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN III; ANTITHROMBIN III PROTEASE COMPLEX; ANTITHROMBIN III-PROTEASE COMPLEX; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIMER; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; FIBRIN FRAGMENT D; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THROMBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOGENIC STROKE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG LOBE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; METABOLISM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PULMONARY ARTERY; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; STROKE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AGED; ANTITHROMBIN III; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TELANGIECTASIA, HEREDITARY HEMORRHAGIC; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0842309186     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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