Sudden deafness and right-to-left shunts

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 409-412

  Iguchi, Yasuyuki ^a   Kimura, Kazumi ^a   Kobayashi, Kazuto ^a   Tachi, Toshihiro ^a   Aihara, Teruhito ^a   Harada, Tamotsu ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Paradoxical brain embolism; Right to left shunts; Sudden deafness; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEAFNESS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEAFNESS; EAR, INNER; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 50049106462     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000151682     Document Type: Article

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