In-hospital onset ischemic stroke may be associated with atrial fibrillation and right-to-left shunt

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 39-43

  Iguchi, Yasuyuki ^a   Kimura, Kazumi ^a   Kobayashi, Kazuto ^a   Ueno, Yuji ^a   Shibazaki, Kensaku ^a   Iwanaga, Takeshi ^a   Inoue, Takeshi ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cerebral infarction; In hospital onset stroke; Paradoxical brain embolism; Right to left shunts; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAUSALITY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 33847275528     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2006.12.013     Document Type: Article

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