Association between the amount of right-to-left shunt and infarct patterns in patients with cryptogenic embolic stroke: A transcranial Doppler study

International Journal of Stroke

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 657-662

  Kim, Ji Won ^a   Kim, Suk Jae ^a   Yoon, Cindy W ^a   Park, Chang Hyun ^a   Kang, Kun Woo ^a   Kim, Soo Kyoung ^a   Kim, Yun Hee ^a   Bang, Oh Young ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cryptogenic stroke; Diffusion weighted MRI; Ischemic; Paradoxical embolism; Patent foramen ovale; Stroke

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CRYPTOGENIC EMBOLIC STROKE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MICROEMBOLISM; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TELEMETRY; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

CRYPTOGENIC STROKE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED MRI; ISCHEMIC; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; STROKE;

DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84888099132     PISSN: 17474930     EISSN: 17474949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4949.2012.00846.x     Document Type: Article

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