Contrast transcranial doppler can diagnose large patent foramen ovale

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 230-234

  Kobayashi, Kazuto ^a   Iguchi, Yasuyuki ^a   Kimura, Kazumi ^a   Okada, Yoko ^a   Terasawa, Yuka ^a   Matsumoto, Noriko ^a   Sakai, Kenichirou ^a   Aoki, Jyunya ^a   Shibazaki, Kensaku ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Right to left shunt; Transcranial Doppler; Transesophageal echocardiography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 58749109816     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000196820     Document Type: Article

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