Should Routine Echocardiography Be Performed in All Patients With Stroke?

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-7

  Wolber, Thomas ^a   Maeder, Micha ^b   Atefy, Ramin ^b   Bluzaite, Ina ^b   Blank, Robert ^b   Rickli, Hans ^b   Ammann, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Division of Cardiology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

accuracy; diagnosis; echocardiography; embolism; human; patent foramen ovale; sensativity; specificity; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33846087403     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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