Small- and moderate-size right-to-left shunts identified by saline contrast echocardiography are normal and unrelated to migraine headache

Chest

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 264-269

  Woods, Timothy D ^a   Harmann, Leanne ^a   Purath, Traci ^b   Ramamurthy, Suresh ^a   Subramanian, Sharath ^a   Jackson, Scott ^a   Tarima, Sergey ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b Wheaton Franciscan Health Care ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; LUNG; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MIGRAINE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 77955360968     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.09-2797     Document Type: Article

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