Ambulatory transcranial Doppler cerebral embolic signal detection in symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid stenosis

Stroke

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1726-1730

  Mackinnon, Andrew D ^a   Aaslid, Rune ^b   Markus, Hugh S ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Hemodynamics AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carotid stenosis; Stroke; Ultrasonography, Doppler, transcranial

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPYRIDAMOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 23244460430     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000173402.88560.ae     Document Type: Article

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