Transoesophageal echocardiography in patients with acute stroke with sinus rhythm and no cardiac disease history

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 412-415

  Cho, Hyun Ji ^a,b   Choi, Hye Yeon ^a   Young Dae Kim, ^a   Nam, Hyo Suk ^a   Han, Sang Won ^a,c   Ha, Jong Won ^a   Chung, Nam Sik ^a   Heo, Ji Hoe ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Konkuk University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART; HISTORY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINOATRIAL NODE; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77950625290     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.190322     Document Type: Article

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