The value of transesophageal echocardiography in the investigation and management of cryptogenic cerebral ischemia: a single-center experience

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 629-632

  Katsanos, Aristeidis H ^a,b   Patsouras, Dimitrios ^c   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^d,e,f   Kosmidou, Maria ^a   Katsanos, Konstantinos H ^a   Kyritsis, Athanassios P ^a,b   Giannopoulos, Sotirios ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c G HATZIKOSTA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Aorta atheromatosis; Cryptogenic stroke; Patent foramen ovale; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; ATRIAL SEPTAL ANEURYSM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART MYXOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PREVALENCE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AGE; AORTIC DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE;

AGE FACTORS; AORTIC DISEASES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STROKE;

EID: 84951737401     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: 15903478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-015-2448-y     Document Type: Article

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