Silent cerebral infarcts and cerebral white matter lesions in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 310-317

  Kobayashi, Akiko ^a   Iguchi, Masahiro ^a   Shimizu, Satoru ^a   Uchiyama, Shinichiro ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; cerebral white matter lesion; maginetic resonance imaging; silent brain infarction

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SUBCORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84860197804     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: 15328511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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