Impending paradoxical cerebral embolism in a patient with atrial septal aneurysm

Circulation Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 246-248

  Miyazaki, Shinsuke ^a   Hirai, Takashi ^a   Hosokawa, Noriyo ^a   Hattori, Eiichiro ^a   Komura, Masatoshi ^a   Konagai, Hideo ^a   Sagai, Hiroshi ^a   Takamoto, Toshihiko ^a  

^a Hokushin General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial septal aneurysm; Impending paradoxical embolism; Patent foramen ovale; Stroke

Indexed keywords

SHU 508; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 14644445216     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.69.246     Document Type: Article

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