Cardiac workup of ischemic stroke

Current Cardiology Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 175-183

  Ustrell, Xavier ^a   Pellisé, Anna ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI JOAN XXIII   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ambulatory electrocardiography; Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac workup; Cardioembolic stroke; Cryptogenic stroke; Echocardiography; Electrocardiography; Stroke

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; TROPONIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METASTASIS; MICROEMBOLISM; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MYXOMA; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; STROKE; TELEMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 77956555928     PISSN: 1573403X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340310791658721     Document Type: Article

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