Cardioversion guided by transesophageal echocardiography: The ACUTE Pilot Study: A randomized, controlled trial

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 200-209

  Klein, Allan L ^a   Grimm, Richard A ^a   Black, Ian W ^b   Leung, Dominic Y ^a   Chung, Mina K ^a   Vaughn, Susan E ^a   Murray, R Daniel ^a   Miller, Dave P ^a   Arheart, Kristopher L ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MANLY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARDIOVERSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINUS RHYTHM; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031053256     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-126-3-199702010-00004     Document Type: Article

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