Asymptomatic acute ischemic stroke after primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute coronary syndrome might be caused mainly by manipulating catheters or devices in the ascending aorta, regardless of the approach to the coronary artery

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-55

  Murai, Motonobu ^a   Hazui, Hiroshi ^b   Sugie, Akira ^b   Hoshiga, Masaaki ^a   Negoro, Nobuyuki ^a   Muraoka, Hideyuki ^b   Miyamoto, Hiroyuki ^b   Kobata, Hitoshi ^b   Fukumoto, Hitoshi ^b   Ishihara, Tadashi ^a   Morita, Hiroshi ^b   Hanafusa, Toshiaki ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic acute ischemic stroke; Diffusion weighted image; Primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; ARM; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROTHROMBUS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VASCULAR ACCESS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATHETERIZATION; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATHETERIZATION; CORONARY VESSELS; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 39849096195     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.72.51     Document Type: Article

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