Cerebral Embolism in Heart Patients
Abstract
Between the years 1983 - 1987, 116 patients with cerebral embolus and 604 patients with hemiplegi that had occured with various reasons other than embolus were examined. The existence of atrial fibrillation and the direction of lateralisation were examined. There was an excess of atrial fibrillation and left hemiplegi to an important extent among the patients with cerebral embolus when they were compared with the other grup. We tried to explain why the emboli went into the right hemispheria by the anatomic structure of the aorta and great vessels and by hedomynamics.
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