Guidelines for the Use of Echocardiography in the ...
ASE Guidelines AND STANDARDSGuidelines for the Use of Echocardiography in theEvaluation of a Cardiac Source of EmbolismMuhamed Saric, MD, PhD, FASE, Chair, Alicia C. Armour, MA, BS, RDCS, FASE, M. Samir Arnaout, MD,Farooq A. Chaudhry, MD, FASE, Richard A. Grimm, DO, FASE, Itzhak Kronzon, MD, FASE,Bruce F. Landeck, II, MD, FASE, Kameswari Maganti, MD, FASE, Hector I. Michelena, MD, FASE,and Kirsten Tolstrup, MD, FASE,New York, New York; Durham, North Carolina; Beirut, Lebanon; Cleveland,Ohio; Aurora, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; Rochester, Minnesota; and Albuquerque, New MexicoEmbolism from the heart or the thoracic aorta often leads to clinically significant morbidity and mortality due totransient ischemic attack, stroke or occlusion of peripheral arteries.
women in the United States. The prevalence of silent cerebral infarc-tion is higher, estimated to range from 6% to 28%. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in Western countries (after cancer and heart disease); it accounts for one of every 19 deaths in the United States. In 2009, the direct and indirect cost of stroke in the United States
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