Right-to-left-shunts detected by transesophageal echocardiography and transcranial Doppler sonography

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 191-196

  Droste, Dirk W ^a,b   Schmidt Rimpler, Carsten ^a   Wichter, Thomas ^a   Dittrich, Ralf ^a   Ritter, Martin ^a   Stypmann, Jörg ^a   Ringelstein, E Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Paradoxical embolism; Patent foramen ovale; Transcranial ultrasonography; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ECHOVIST;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSACCHARIDES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 1942499594     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000075790     Document Type: Article

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