Transesophageal echocardiography is superior to transthoracic echocardiography in management of patients of any age with transient ischemic attack or stroke

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2531-2534

  De Bruijn, Sebastiaan F T M ^a,b   Agema, Willem R P ^b   Lammers, Gert Jan ^b   Van Der Wall, Ernst E ^b   Wolterbeek, Ron ^b   Holman, Eduard R ^b   Bollen, Edward L E M ^b   Bax, Jeroen J ^b  

^a HAGA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Echocardiography; Stroke; TIA

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; DRUG SAFETY; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; AORTIC DISEASES; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; CASE MANAGEMENT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33749026057     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000241064.46659.69     Document Type: Article

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