Left atrial spontaneous echo contrast in asymptomatic patients with a mechanical valve prothesis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1790-1795

  Lee, Tsung Ming ^b   Chou, Nai Kuan ^b   Su, Sheng Fang ^b   Lin, Yueh Juh ^b   Chen, Ming Fong ^b   Liau, Chiau Suong ^b   Lee, Yuan Teh ^b   Chu, Shu Hsun ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0030540972     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(96)00739-4     Document Type: Article

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