Atheromatous plaques at the origin of the left subclavian artery in patients with ischemic stroke

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 290-296

  Kuwashiro, Takahiro ^a   Toyoda, Kazunori ^a   Yoshimura, Sohei ^a   Koga, Masatoshi ^a   Naganuma, Masaki ^a   Otsubo, Ryoichi ^a   Konaka, Kuni ^a   Uehara, Toshiyuki ^a   Naritomi, Hiroaki ^a   Minematsu, Kazuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Aortic arch; Atheromatous plaque; Cerebral infarction; Left subclavian artery; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA ARCH; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY;

EID: 74249112965     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000275506     Document Type: Article

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