Serial changes of left atrial thrombus in mitral stenosis: Transesophageal echocardiographic studies in candidates for balloon mitral commissurotomy

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 278-284

  Hase, Mamoru ^a   Tsuchihashi, Kazufumi ^a   Yonekura, Shuji ^a   Nagao, Kazuhiko ^a   Tanaka, Shigemichi ^a   Shimamoto, Kazuaki ^a   Iimura, Osamu ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anticoagulant therapy; Balloon valvuloplasty; Left atrial thrombus; Mitral stenosis; Transesophageal echocardiogram

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY;

ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BALLOON DILATATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0029871080     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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