Is transcranial Doppler for the detection of venous-to-arterial circulation shunts reproducible?

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 424-429

  Sastry, S ^a   Daly, K ^a   Chengodu, T ^a   McCollum, C ^a  

^a MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agitated saline; Patent foramen ovale; Transcranial Doppler, reproducibility; Venous to arterial circulation shunts

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FORAMEN OVALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STROKE;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY CIRCULATION; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 34248366417     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000101466     Document Type: Article

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