Transesophageal echocardiography in patients with cryptogenic cerebral ischemia

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Knebel, Fabian ^a,d   Masuhr, Florian ^a,d   Von Hausen, Wolfram ^b,d   Walde, Torsten ^c,d   Dreger, Henryk ^a,d   Raab, Vanessa ^c,d   Yuerek, Mahsun ^d,e   Baumann, Gert ^a,d   Borges, Adrian C ^a,d  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Berlin   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^d Klinikum Schwabing   (Germany)

^e SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHOVIST;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DYSKINESIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART TUMOR; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AORTA DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC DISEASES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART DISEASES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64749096044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-7-15     Document Type: Article

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