A longitudinal study in patients with non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation and left atrial thrombosis treated with anticoagulant therapy;Studio osservazionale sulla trombosi atriale sinistra nei pazienti con fibrillazione atriale non reumatica trattati con anticoagulante

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1036-1043

  Scardi, Sabino ^a   Mazzone, Carmine ^a   Pandullo, Claudio ^a   Goldstein, Daniela ^a   Perkan, Andrea ^a  

^a MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Atrial fibrillation; Intravascular thrombosis; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030858154     PISSN: 00465968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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