CT angiography of the aorta is superior to transesophageal echocardiography for determining stroke subtypes in patients with cryptogenic ischemic stroke

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 322-328

  Chatzikonstantinou, A ^a   Krissak, R ^a   Fluchter S ^a   Artemis, D ^a   Schaefer, A ^a   Schoenberg, S O ^a   Hennerici, M G ^a   Fink, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute ischemic stroke; Aorta; Aortic atherosclerosis; Cryptogenic stroke; CT angiography; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOGENIC ISCHEMIC STROKE; DESCENDING AORTA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84856867544     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000335828     Document Type: Article

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