Transesophageal pulsed Doppler echocardiographic study of systolic flow velocity patterns of the pulmonary vein in patients with atrial fibrillation

Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 147-156

  Oki, Takashi ^a   Iuchi, Arata ^a   Tabata, Tomotsugu ^a   Yamada, Hirotsugu ^a   Manabe, Kazuyo ^a   Fukuda, Kazuyo ^a   Abe, Miho ^a   Fukuda, Nobuo ^b   Ito, Susumu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Left atrial pressure; Preceding RR interval; Pulmonary venous flow velocity; Systolic waves; Transesophageal pulsed Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART MYXOMA; HUMAN; LUNG VEIN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031931147     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00590.x     Document Type: Article

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