Clinical and imaging characteristics of PFO-related stroke with different amounts of right-to-left shunt.

Dan HeQian LiGuangjin XuZheng HuXuefei LiYinping GuoShabei XuWei WangXiang Luo

Published in: Brain and behavior (2018)

Patients with larger RLS show more infarction in posterior circulation, higher frequency of small lesions or multiple cortical lesions. The results of our study indicate that the infarct patterns might be a clue of PFO-related stroke.

Keyphrases

atrial fibrillation
high resolution
acute myocardial infarction
pulmonary artery
heart failure
coronary artery disease
left ventricular
pulmonary hypertension
brain injury
subarachnoid hemorrhage
drug induced