title: Stroke associated with pulmonary embolism after air travel.
abstract: Prolonged air travel is associated with an increased incidence of thromboembolic events. The occurrence of stroke was studied in patients with pulmonary embolism after air travel in a review of all flights arriving at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris during an 8-year period. Thromboembolic stroke and patent foramen ovale were diagnosed in four patients with pulmonary embolus.
authors.affiliation: SAMU 93, Hôpital Avicenne, UPRES 34-09, Université Paris XIII, Bobigny, France. frederic.lapostolle@avc.ap-hop-paris.fr
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lapostolle
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Borron
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Surget
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sordelet
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lapandry
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Adnet
mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia / Q000209:etiology; D020520:Brain Infarction / Q000209:etiology; D019320:Embolism, Paradoxical / Q000209:etiology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications*; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology*; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000209:etiology; D014195:Travel