Use of carotid intima-media thickness to identify patients with ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack with low yield of cardiovascular sources of embolus on transesophageal echocardiography

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2969-2974

  Ward, R Parker ^a,b   Lammertin, Georgeanne ^a   Virnich, Daniel E ^a   Polonsky, Tamar S ^a   Lang, Roberto M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic methods; Echocardiography; Stroke care; TIA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; ROC CURVE; STROKE;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; STROKE;

EID: 55749089212     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.519181     Document Type: Article

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