Risk factors for systemic embolism in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

American Heart Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 149-153

  Corbalán, Ramón ^a   Arriagada, Domingo ^a   Braun, Sandra ^a   Tapia, Jorge ^a   Huete, Isidro ^a   Kramer, Albrecht ^a   Chávez, Antonieta ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0026771158     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-8703(92)90933-M     Document Type: Article

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