Hematologic correlates of spontaneous echo contrast in patients with atrial fibrillation and implications for thromboembolic risk

The American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 1994, Pages 672-676

  Fatkin, Diane ^a   Herbert, Elissa ^a   Feneley, Michael P ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHEAR RATE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, ANTICARDIOLIPIN; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; BLOOD VISCOSITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0028231593     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(94)90932-6     Document Type: Article

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