Transcranial Doppler versus transthoracic echocardiography for the detection of patent foramen ovale in patients with cryptogenic cerebral ischemia: A systematic review and diagnostic test accuracy meta-analysis

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 625-635

  Katsanos, Aristeidis H ^a,b   Psaltopoulou, Theodora ^c   Sergentanis, Theodoros N ^c   Frogoudaki, Alexandra ^b   Vrettou, Agathi Rosa ^b   Ikonomidis, Ignatios ^b   Paraskevaidis, Ioannis ^b   Parissis, John ^b   Bogiatzi, Chrysa ^d   Zompola, Christina ^b   Ellul, John ^e   Triantafyllou, Nikolaos ^f   Voumvourakis, Konstantinos ^b   Kyritsis, Athanassios P ^a   Giannopoulos, Sotirios ^a   Alexandrov, Anne W ^g,h   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^g   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^b,g,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^d ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^f NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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

^h AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CRYPTOGENIC CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; META ANALYSIS; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE PATIENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; STANDARDS;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84960193105     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.24609     Document Type: Article

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