Cerebral microemboli and brain injury during carotid artery endarterectomy and stenting

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 230-234

  Skjelland, Mona ^a   Krohg Sørensen, Kirsten ^a   Tennøe, Bjørn ^a   Bakke, Søren J ^a   Brucher, Rainer ^b   Russell, David ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embolic stroke; Embolism; Endarterectomy; Endovascular treatment; TCD; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; AIR EMBOLISM; BRAIN; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; COMORBIDITY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EMBOLISM, AIR; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 60549111266     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.513341     Document Type: Article

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