Does microbleed predict haemorrhagic transformation after acute atherothrombotic or cardioembolic stroke?

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 913-916

  Lee, S H ^a   Kang, B S ^a   Kim, N ^a   Roh, J K ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROTHROMBOTIC STROKE; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOEMBOLIC STROKE; CEREBRAL MICROBLEED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMORRHAGIC TRANSFORMATION'; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EMBOLISM; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 48249150725     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.133876     Document Type: Article

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