Hyper-acute stroke patients associated with aortic dissection

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 543-547

  Iguchi, Yasuyuki ^a   Kimura, Kazumi ^a   Sakai, Kenichiro ^a   Matsumoto, Noriko ^a   Aoki, Junya ^a   Yamashita, Shinji ^a   Shibazaki, Kensaku ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Aortic dissection; Carotid duplex ultrasonography; tPA

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PULSE RATE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 77950643234     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.3026     Document Type: Article

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