Thromboembolic risk factors in atrial flutter: A transesophageal echocardiographic study;Factores de riesgo tromboembólico en el flutter auricular. Estudio con ecocardiografía transesofágica

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 128, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1327-1334

  Thumala J, Alfredo ^a   Parra R, Claudio ^b   Maragaño L, Patricio ^b   Puelma P, Alvaro ^b   Florenzano U, Fernando ^b  

^a Sección Cardiología   (Chile)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Atrial flutter; Echocardiography, transesophageal; Thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0034574538     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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