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Study results from Zhejiang University, Department of Neurology update understanding of life sciences
Published in Medical Imaging Week, June 6th, 2009
New research, 'Association of right-to-left shunt with frontal white matter lesions in T2-weighted MR imaging of stroke patients,' is the subject of a report. According to a study from Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, "Cardiac right-to-left shunt (RLS), mainly due to patent foramen ovale (PFO), is a risk factor for paradoxical embolism and stroke. Results of studies about brain lesions in diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in PFO patients were controversial."
"DWI only detects acute ischemic lesions. We assessed the hypothesis that, in T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (T2WI) of stroke patients, RLS is associated with a typical distribution of small white matter...
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Source: Medical Imaging Week (2009-06-06)
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