Transcranial Doppler detection of venous-to-arterial circulation shunts: Criteria for patent foramen ovale

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 276-280

  Sastry, S ^a   MacNab, A ^a   Daly, K ^a   Ray, S ^a   McCollum, C ^a  

^a MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast agents; Patent foramen ovale; Transcranial Doppler; Transesophageal echocardiography; Venous to arterial circulation shunts

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 66749150484     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: 10970096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.20564     Document Type: Article

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