Cryptogenic stroke in a boy with atrial septal defect and hyperhomocysteinemia

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1070-1071

  Indolfi, Giuseppe ^a   Bartolini, Elisa ^a   Trapani, Sandra ^a   Azzari, Chiara ^a   Resti, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Hyperhomocysteinemia; Paradoxical embolism; Stroke

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MALE; MIGRAINE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; ANTICOAGULANTS; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS, INHERITED; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FOLIC ACID; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; INFARCTION, POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; STROKE; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 50449086902     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073808315416     Document Type: Article

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