Clinical variables affecting recovery of left atrial mechanical function after cardioversion from atrial fibrillation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 481-486

  Harjai, Kishore J ^a   Mobarek, Sameh K ^a   Cheirif, Jorge ^a   Boulos, Louis Marie ^a   Murgo, Joseph P ^a   Abi Samra, Freddy ^a  

^a OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE COMPLIANCE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE VOLUME; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030753623     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(97)00173-3     Document Type: Article

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