Siddiqui, Tariq
[Author]
;
Brück, Wolfgang
[Degree supervisor];
Schroeter, Marco
[Degree supervisor];
Ritter, Christian
[Degree supervisor];
Oppermann, Martin
[Degree supervisor]
Die Bedeutung der transösophagealen Echokardiographie beim Schlaganfall - Ergebnisse einer großen monozentrischen Querschnittsstudie
University thesis:
Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2021
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Description:
Strokes are one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Despite intensified diagnostics, the majority of strokes must be classified as cryptogenic. In this context the role of a PFO with or without ASA seems unclear and is controversial in the literature. Furthermore there are morphological changes in the left atrium with changes in the flow velocities suspected of having a role to play in the pathogenesis of cryptogenic stroke. In this context, we retrospectively examined 909 patients (354 women, 555 men, median age 63 years), who were, at the University Medicine of Göttingen from 2012 t...