Effect of body positioning during transcranial Doppler detection of right-to-left shunts

European Journal of Neurology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1035-1039

  Lao, A Y ^a   Sharma, V K ^a   Tsivgoulis, G ^a,b   Malkoff, M D ^a   Alexandrov, A V ^a,b   Frey, J L ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Patent foramen ovale; Right to left shunt; Stroke; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY POSITION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SITTING; SUPINE POSITION; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 34548178065     PISSN: 13515101     EISSN: 14681331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2007.01879.x     Document Type: Article

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