Right atrial thrombi and depressed right atrial appendage function after cardioversion of atrial fibrillation

Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 245-251

  Omran, Heyder ^a   Jung, Werner ^a   Maccarter, Dean ^a   Schimpf, Rainer ^a   Rabahieh, Rami ^a   Schumacher, Burghard ^a   Wolpert, Christian ^a   Becher, Harald ^a   Lüderitz, Berndt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Defibrillation; Echocardiography; Embolism; Right atrial appendage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOGENESIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032943353     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1999.tb00809.x     Document Type: Article

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