Predictors of left atrial thrombus and spontaneous echo contrast in rheumatic valve disease before and after mitral valve replacement

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1066-1070

  Özkan, Mehmet ^b   Kaymaz, Cihangir ^b   Kirma, Cevat ^b   Civelek, Ali ^b   Cenal, Ali Riza ^b   Yakut, Cevat ^b   Deligonul, Ubeydullah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0031793469     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00556-6     Document Type: Article

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