Right-to-left shunt and lacunar stroke in patients without hypertension and diabetes

Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 528-531

  Ueno, Y ^a,b   Kimura, K ^a   Iguchi, Y ^a   Shibazaki, K ^a   Inoue, T ^a   Urabe, T ^b  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LACUNAR STROKE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33847019242     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000253197.83777.c7     Document Type: Article

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