Homocysteine and pulsatility index of cerebral arteries

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3216-3220

  Lim, Mi Hye ^a   Cho, Young I ^b   Jeong, Seul Ki ^a  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemodynamics; Homocysteine; Ischemic stroke; Pulsatility index; Transcranial Doppler; Vascular resistance

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULSATILE FLOW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 70349653326     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.558403     Document Type: Article

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