Transcranial doppler ultrasonography should it be the first choice for persistent foramen ovale screening?

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Komar, Monika ^a   Olszowska, Maria ^a   Przewłocki, Tadeusz ^b   Podolec, Jakub ^b   Stȩpniewski, Jakub ^a   Sobień, Bartosz ^a   Badacz, Rafał ^b   Kabłak Ziembicka, Anna ^b   Tomkiewicz Paja̧k, Lidia ^a   Podolec, Piotr ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b Krakowski Szpital Specjalistyczny Im Jana Pawła II   (Poland)

Author keywords

Persistent foramen ovale; Transcranial color doppler ultrasound; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VALSALVA MANEUVER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902250028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-12-16     Document Type: Article

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