Differences in diffusion-weighted image and transesophageal echocardiographical findings in cardiogenic, paradoxical and aortogenic brain embolism

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 148-154

  Fujimoto, Shigeru ^a,c   Toyoda, Kazunori ^a   Jinnouchi, Juro ^c   Yasaka, Masahiro ^a   Kitazono, Takanari ^b   Okada, Yasushi ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYUSHU MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c STEEL MEMORIAL YAWATA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute stroke diagnosis; Aortic arch atherosclerosis; Cardiac embolism; Diffusion weighted image; Patent foramen ovale; Ultrasound diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE PATIENT; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

AGED; AORTIC DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79960486318     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000328652     Document Type: Article

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