Mobile aortic plaques are a cause of multiple brain infarcts seen on diffusion-weighted imaging

Stroke

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2470-2476

  Ueno, Yuji ^a,b,c   Kimura, Kazumi ^a   Iguchi, Yasuyuki ^a   Shibazaki, Kensaku ^a   Inoue, Takeshi ^a   Hattori, Nobutaka ^b   Urabe, Takao ^b  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted image; Embolic stroke; Mobile aortic plaques; Multiple brain infarction; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548258287     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.482497     Document Type: Article

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