Prevalence of right-to-left shunt in patients with cluster headache

Journal of Headache and Pain

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 244-246

  Morelli, Nicola ^a   Gori, Sara ^a   Cafforio, Gianfranco ^a   Gallerini, Simone ^a   Baldacci, Filippo ^a   Orlandi, Giovanni ^a   Murri, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cluster headache; Patent foramen ovale; Right to left shunt; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER HEADACHE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CLUSTER HEADACHE; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 25144444056     PISSN: 11292369     EISSN: 11292377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10194-005-0197-7     Document Type: Article

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