The diagnostic efficiency of transesophageal compared to transthoracic echocardiographic findings from 405 patients with ischemic stroke

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1486-1489

  Yaghoubi, Ehsan ^a   Nemati, Reza ^a   Aghasadeghi, Kamran ^a   Haghighi, Afshin Borhani ^a,b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Classification; Echocardiography; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEURYSM; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; STANDARD; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 80053568830     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: 15322653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2011.02.034     Document Type: Article

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