Solid and gaseous cerebral microembolization after biologic and mechanical aortic valve replacement: Investigation with multirange and multifrequency transcranial Doppler ultrasound

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 512-520

  Guerrieri Wolf, Lorenzo ^a   Choudhary, Bikram P ^a   Abu Omar, Yasir ^a   Taggart, David P ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROEMBOLISM; NEUROIMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COHORT STUDIES; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 40149095420     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.07.062     Document Type: Article

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