Acute retinal arteriolar emboli after cardiac catheterization

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3086-3087

  Kreis, Andreas J ^a   Nguyen, Thanh ^a   Rogers, Sophie ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^a,b   Harper, C Alex ^a   Clark, David J ^a   Farouque, H M Omar ^a   Wong, Tien Y ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Catheter; Coronary; Coronary artery disease; Embolus; Retina; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIC DISK; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VISION; EMBOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA ARTERY OCCLUSION; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMBOLISM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 55749106940     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.516591     Document Type: Article

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