Paradoxical brain embolism caused by pulmonary arteriovenous fistula and coincident pulmonary embolism: A case report

Angiology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 577-581

  Miyabe, Hiromichi ^a,b   Ohte, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Kurokawa, Kazuyuki ^a,b   Goto, Toshihiko ^a,b   Takada, Norio ^a,b   Yajima, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Akita, Sachie ^a,b   Mukai, Seiji ^a,b   Kimura, Genjiro ^a,b  

^a Nagoya City Univ Grad Sch Med S ^*

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG CHOICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY VEINS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RECURRENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WARFARIN;

EID: 4544262325     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970405500517     Document Type: Article

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