Patent foramen ovale in a large population of ischemic stroke patients: Diagnosis, age distribution, gender, and race

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 217-227

  Gupta, Vishal ^a   Yesilbursa, Dilek ^b   Huang, Wen Ying ^b   Aggarwal, Kul ^c   Gupta, Vijaya ^d   Gomez, Camilo ^e   Patel, Vinod ^b   Miller, Andrew P ^b   Nanda, Navin C ^b,f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

^d WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Alabama Neurological Institute   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial septal aneurysm; Atrial septal defect; Cerebrovascular disease; Echocardiography; Patent foramen ovale; Transesophageal echocardiogram

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; GENDER; GOLD STANDARD; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 38849117848     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00583.x     Document Type: Article

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