The extent of right-to-left shunt fails to correlate with severity of clinical picture in migraine with aura

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 14-17

  Gori, S ^a   Morelli, N ^a   Fanucchi, S ^a   Gallerini, S ^a   Manca, M L ^a   Orlandi, G ^a   Murri, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Migraine with aura; Patent foramen ovale; Right to left shunt; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; AGE; BRAIN ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CAUSALITY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEART ATRIA; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 33745225592     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-006-0559-1     Document Type: Article

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