Transoesophageal echocardiography for the study of potential cardiac of emboli sources;L'ecocardiografia transesofagea nello studio delle potenziali fonti emboligene cardiovascolari. Utilità nello studio dei pazienti affetti da ictus criptogenetico

Recenti Progressi in Medicina

Volumn 98, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 387-388

  De Tommaso, Italo ^a   Vairo, Ugo ^a   Mecca, Domenico ^a  

^a SAN CARLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Cryptogenetic stroke; Transoesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34250833945     PISSN: 00341193     EISSN: 00341193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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