Different degrees of right-to-left shunting predict migraine and stroke: Data from 420 patients
- 14 March 2006
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 66 (5) , 765-767
- https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000201271.75157.5a
Abstract
The authors analyzed the extent of right-to-left shunting in patients with migraine, patients with cryptogenic stroke, and controls. Patients with both migraine and stroke had larger shunts than did patients with migraine without stroke (p = 0.038), patients with no migraine with stroke (p = 0.007), and control patients (p < 0.0001). Patients with migraine have overall larger shunts than nonmigraineurs, particularly if they have had a stroke. Right-to-left shunting may be causally related to migraine and to the increased stroke risk of migraine.Keywords
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