Blood cyst of the mitral valve: A rare cause of stroke

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 736-738

  Lodha, Ankur ^a,b   Patel, Jigar ^a   Haran, Mehandi ^a   Sadiq, Adnan ^a   Shani, Jacob ^a  

^a MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Apartment 4B ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Blood cyst; Embolic stroke; Mitral valve

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MITRAL VALVE CYST; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CYSTS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; RARE DISEASES; STROKE;

EID: 67650745444     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00879.x     Document Type: Article

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