Clinical and echocardiographic predictors of left atrial clot and spontaneous echo contrast in patients with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis: A prospective study in 200 patients by transesophageal echocardiography

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 273-279

  Goswami, Kewal C ^a   Yadav, Rakesh ^a   Rao, M Bhaskara ^a   Bahl, Vinay K ^a   Talwar, Kewal K ^a   Manchanda, Subhash C ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Left atrial clot; Left atrial spontaneous echo contrast; Mitral stenosis; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT; BLOOD CLOTTING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0034738110     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5273(00)00235-7     Document Type: Article

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