Thrombus Detection by Echocardiography in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke and Chronic or New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 208-211

  Douen, Andre G ^a,b   Sabih, Mehreen ^a   Pageau, Nicole ^a  

^a Trillium Health Centre Missassauga   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

anticoagulation; atrial fibrillation; echocardiography; Stroke; transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; THROMBOSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45449096476     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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