Microembolic air load during contrast-transcranial doppler: A trigger for migraine with aura?

Headache

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1320-1327

  Caputi, Luigi ^a   Usai, Susanna ^b   Carriero, Maria R ^a   Grazzi, Licia ^b   D'Amico, Domenico ^b   Falcone, Chiara ^c   Anzola, Gian P ^a,d   Del Sette, Massimo ^e   Parati, Eugenio ^a   Bussone, Gennaro ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b Headache Centre   (Italy)

^c Department of Neuroepidemiology ^*  (Italy)

^d S Orsola Hospital   (Italy)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

aura; embolism; migraine; Transcranial Doppler; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE DURATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; MICROEMBOLISM; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; THROMBOPHILIA; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956334734     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2010.01621.x     Document Type: Article

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