Jugular veins in transient global amnesia: Innocent bystanders

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2289-2292

  Baracchini, Claudio ^a   Tonello, Simone ^b   Farina, Filippo ^a   Viaro, Federica ^a   Atzori, Matteo ^a   Ballotta, Enzo ^c   Manara, Renzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^b TREVISO REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

transient global amnesia; ultrasound; veins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN VEIN; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; GALEN VEIN; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; MIGRAINE WITHOUT AURA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VENOUS REFLUX;

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA, TRANSIENT GLOBAL; CEREBRAL VEINS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 84865609242     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.654087     Document Type: Article

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