Right-to-left shunt in CADASIL patients: A comorbidity factor?

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Mazzucco, Sara ^a   Anzola, Gian Paolo ^b   Rizzuto, Nicolò ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b Santg'Orsola Hospital FBF   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADASIL; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; LETTER; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE;

CADASIL; COMORBIDITY; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 54049132120     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.527093     Document Type: Letter

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