Microemboli-monitoring during the acute phase of ischemic stroke: Is it worth the time?

BMC Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Idicula, Titto T ^a,b   Naess, Halvor ^a   Thomassen, Lars ^a  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MICROEMBOLISM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MORTALITY; NEUROMONITORING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; STROKE;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 77956467554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-10-79     Document Type: Article

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