Relation of fibrillatory wave amplitude with hemostatic abnormality and left atrial appendage dysfunction in patients with chronic nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 375-380

  Nakagawa, Keiko ^a   Hirai, Tadakazu ^a   Shinokawa, Noriko ^a   Uchiyama, Yoshiko ^a   Kameyama, Tomoki ^a   Takashima, Shutaro ^a   Fujiki, Akira ^a   Asanoi, Hidetsugo ^a   Inoue, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fibrillatory wave; Hemostatic markers; Thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

BETA THROMBOGLOBULIN; D DIMER; THROMBIN ANTITHROMBIN COMPLEX; THROMBOCYTE FACTOR 4;

AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035003055     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.65.375     Document Type: Article

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