Asymmetric pattern of cerebrovascular lesions in patients after left ventricular assist device implantation

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 872-874

  Kato, Tomoko S ^a,d   Ota, Takeyoshi ^e   Schulze, P Christian ^a   Farr, Maryjane ^a   Jorde, Ulrich ^a   Takayama, Hiroo ^b   Naka, Yoshifumi ^b   Yamashita, Toru ^c   Mancini, Donna M ^a  

^a Division of Cardiology   (United States)

^b Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^e NONE

Author keywords

acute stroke; cardiac surgery; infectious disease

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DIPYRIDAMOLE; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIAC PATIENT; DEVICE INFECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEPSIS; STROKE; SURGICAL PATIENT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; AORTA; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INFECTION; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 84857650878     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.639682     Document Type: Article

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