Yield of transesophageal echocardiography for nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis and other cardiac sources of embolism in cancer patients with cerebral ischemia

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 894-898

  Dutta, Tanya ^a   Karas, Maria G ^a   Segal, Alan Z ^a   Kizer, Jorge R ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; STROKE; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEGETATIVE STAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33644587311     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2005.09.140     Document Type: Article

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