Primary determinants of ischaemic stroke/brain abscess risks are independent of severity of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations in hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia

Thorax

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 259-266

  Shovlin, C L ^a,b,c   Jackson, J E ^b   Bamford, K B ^a,b   Jenkins, I H ^b   Benjamin, A R ^b   Ramadan, H ^b   Kulinskaya, E ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HAZARD RATIO; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; OXYGEN SATURATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; BRAIN ABSCESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEINS; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TELANGIECTASIA, HEREDITARY HEMORRHAGIC;

EID: 40649111657     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2007.087452     Document Type: Article

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