Uncommon etiologies of atrial fibrillation

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 513-516

  Raggi, Paolo ^a,b   Vasavada, Balendu C ^a   Parente, Thomas ^a   Prasada, Sudhir ^a   Sacchi, Terrence J ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; color; cor triatriatum; Doppler; echocardiography; patent ductus arteriosus; pulmonary embolism; transesophageal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PATHOGENESIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029809659     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960190614     Document Type: Article

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