Paradoxical embolism causing stroke and migraine

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 206-208

  Nightingale, S ^a   Ray, G S ^a  

^a WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryptogenic stroke; hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia; migraine; patent foramen ovale

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COIL EMBOLIZATION; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; MIGRAINE; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COMPLICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; TELANGIECTASIA, HEREDITARY HEMORRHAGIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; STROKE; TELANGIECTASIA, HEREDITARY HEMORRHAGIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956363030     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: 09722823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.68630     Document Type: Article

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