Almost perfect concordance between simultaneous transcranial Doppler and transesophageal echocardiography in the quantification of right-to-left shunts

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 133-138

  Belvís, Robert ^a,b   Leta, Ruben Gabriel ^a   Martí Fàbregas, Joan ^a   Cocho, Dolores ^a   Carreras, Francesc ^a   Pons Lladó, Guillem ^a   Martí Vilalta, Josep Lluis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Patent foramen ovale; Stroke; Transcranial Doppler; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 33645451063     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2006.00021.x     Document Type: Article

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