Evaluation of left atrial filling using systolic pulmonary venous flow velocity measurements in patients with atrial fibrillation

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 169-174

  Oki, Takashi ^a   Tabata, Tomotsugu ^a   Yamada, Hirotsugu ^a   Wakatsuki, Tetsuzo ^a   Fukuda, Kazuyo ^a   Abe, Miho ^a   Onose, Yukiko ^a   Iuchi, Arata ^a   Fukuda, Nobuo ^b   Ito, Susumu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Left atrial filling; Preceding R R interval; Pulmonary venous flow velocity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; PULMONARY VEIN; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0031887754     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960210306     Document Type: Article

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