Cardioembolic stroke followed by isolated celiac artery thromboembolism

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 1463-1466

  Tanaka, Yuko ^a   Nakajima, Makoto ^a   Hirano, Teruyuki ^b   Uchino, Makoto ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardioembolic stroke; Celiac artery embolism

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BICARBONATE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; DIURETIC AGENT; GLYCEROL; NITROGEN; UREA;

ACIDOSIS; AGED; ANEMIA; APHASIA; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CELIAC ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CYANOSIS; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTUBATION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG CONGESTION; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PULSE RATE; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; RIGIDITY; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VOMITING; FATALITY; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE; PARKINSONISM; THROMBOSIS;

ACIDOSIS; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CELIAC ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART DISEASES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VENTRICLES; HEPATIC INSUFFICIENCY; HUMANS; MALE; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 34548752887     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.0166     Document Type: Article

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