Diagnosis of right-to-left shunt with transcranial Doppler and vertebrobasilar recording

Stroke

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2254-2256

  Del Sette, Massimo ^a   Dinia, Lavinia ^a   Rizzi, Domenica ^a   Sugo, Annalisa ^a   Albano, Beatrice ^a   Gandolfo, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Middle cerebral artery; Patent foramen ovale; Right to left shunt; Stroke; Temporal bone window; Transcranial Doppler; Vertebrobasilar circulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL BONE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; TEMPORAL BONE; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; OCCIPITAL BONE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TEMPORAL BONE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 34548266583     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.106.479485     Document Type: Article

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