Prevalence of right-to-left shunts in active fighter pilots

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 135-136

  Weber, Frank ^a   Goriup, Alexander ^a  

^a German Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

Altitude; Epidemiology; PFO; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 33846805709     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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