Prevalence of transthoracic echocardiographic abnormalities in patients with ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, and subarachnoid hemorrhage

Archives of Medical Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 40-42

  Amin, Harshad ^a   Aronow, Wilbert S ^a   Lleva, Paul ^a   McClung, John A ^a   Desai, Harit ^a   Gandhi, Kaushang ^a   Marks, Stephen ^a   Singh, Brij ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Ischemic stroke; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECG ABNORMALITY; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PREVALENCE; SINUS RHYTHM; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 77949416131     PISSN: 17341922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/aoms.2010.13505     Document Type: Article

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