Distribution of artificial cerebral microemboli in stroke patients with patent foramen ovale

Neurological Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 109-111

  Telman, Gregory ^a   Kouperberg, Efim ^a   Sprecher, Elliot ^a   Goldsher, Dorit ^a   Yarnitsky, David ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Basilar artery; Distribution of HITS; Middle cerebral artery; PFO; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BASILAR ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MALE; MICROEMBOLISM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 13244267022     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164105X18458     Document Type: Article

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