Cardioembolic stroke: Clinical features, specific cardiac disorders and prognosis

Current Cardiology Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 150-161

  Arboix, Adrià ^a,b   Alió, Josefina ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac source of emboli; Cardioembolic stroke; Outcome; Recurrent embolization

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROTHROMBOTIC INFARCTION; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOEMBOLIC STROKE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBOLISM; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMIPARESIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MORTALITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL DYSRHYTHMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY PREVENTION; STROKE; TACHYCARDIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 77956551551     PISSN: 1573403X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340310791658730     Document Type: Article

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