Quantification of left atrial appendage spontaneous echo contrast in patients with chronic nonvalvular atrial fibrillation

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 325-333

  Ito, T ^a   Suwa, M ^a   Nakamura, T ^a   Miyazaki, S ^a   Kobashi, A ^a   Kitaura, Y ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Echocardiography, transesophageal; Thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0034931689     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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