Selective Vulnerability of Cortical Border Zone to Microembolic Infarct

Stroke

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1864-1869

  Bergui, Mauro ^a   Castagno, Davide ^b   D'Agata, Federico ^a   Cicerale, Alessandro ^a   Anselmino, Matteo ^b   Maria Ferrio, Federica ^a   Giustetto, Carla ^b   Halimi, Franck ^c   Scaglione, Marco ^d   Gaita, Fiorenzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c Dept of Interventional Cardiology Ctr Medico Chirurgical Parly G   (France)

^d CARDINAL MASSAIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; brain ischemia, etiology; cardiac surgical procedures, adverse effects; magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ANTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVERSION; CEREBELLUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTOPARIETAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INSULA; LIMBIC CORTEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROEMBOLISM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PARIETAL LOBE; PIA ARTERY; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILENT CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA; SUPERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84941124262     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.008194     Document Type: Article

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