Neurological complications of atrioesophageal fistulas: Postprandial insults, epilepsy and meningitis;Neurologische Komplikationen atrioösophagealer Fisteln: Postprandialer Insult, Epilepsie und Meningitis

Nervenarzt

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 198-201

  Finsterer, J ^a   Stollberger C ^a   Pulgram, T ^a  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atrioesophageal fistula; Confusion; Epilepsy; Meningitis; Stroke

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; ATRIOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; STENT; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EPILEPSY; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD;

EID: 79952443846     PISSN: 00282804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00115-010-3019-3     Document Type: Article

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