Association of mitral annular calcium with new thromboembolic stroke at 44-month follow-up of 2,148 persons, mean age 81 years

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 105-106

  Aronow, Wilbert S ^a   Ahn, Chul ^b   Kronzon, Itzhak ^b   Gutstein, Hal ^b  

^a HEBREW HOSPITAL HOME   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CALCINOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0031974283     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00854-0     Document Type: Article

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