Clinical significance of cerebrovascular gas emboli during polidocanol endovenous ultra-low nitrogen microfoam ablation and correlation with magnetic resonance imaging in patients with right-to-left shunt

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 131-137

  Regan, John D ^a   Gibson, Kathleen D ^b   Rush, Janet E ^e   Shortell, Cynthia K ^c   Hirsch, Stanley A ^d   Wright, David D I ^e  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Lake Washington Vascular and Overlake Hospital   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BIOCOMPATIBLES UK LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLIDOCANOL; TROPONIN I;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; ECCHYMOSIS; FEMALE; FOAM; GAS EMBOLISM; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR COAGULUM; LIMB DISEASE; LIMB PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; EMBOLISM, AIR; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SCLEROTHERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VARICOSE VEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650523516     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2010.06.179     Document Type: Article

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