Splenic and Renal Infarctions Complicating Atrial Fibrillation

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 4-5, 1997, Pages 342-349

  Argiris, Athanassios ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Renal infarction; Splenic infarction; Systemic thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INFARCTION; KIDNEY; SPLEEN INFARCTION; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION; KIDNEY; SPLENIC INFARCTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031225809     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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