Transient neurological symptoms during contrast transcranial doppler right-to-left shunt testing in patients with cryptogenic neurological disease

Journal of Interventional Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 284-290

  Sorensen, Sherman G ^a   Aguilar, Heather ^a   Reichert, Walter ^b   Goldstein, Michael ^b   Thoen, Dennis ^b   Thomas, Heidi ^c   Muhlestein, Joseph B ^c  

^a Eccles Outpatient Building   (United States)

^b Western Neurological Associates   (United States)

^c INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; MICROEMBOLISM; MIGRAINE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SHUNTING; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTIGO; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953218872     PISSN: 08964327     EISSN: 15408183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8183.2010.00557.x     Document Type: Article

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