Absence of circulating microemboli in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing electric cardioversion

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 95-99

  Nabavi, Darius G ^a,b   Allroggen, Achim ^a   Reinecke, Holger ^a   Kemény, Vendel ^a   Droste, Dirk W ^a   Breithardt, Günter ^a   Ringelstein, E Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardioversion; Embolism; Ultrasonography, diagnostic

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROEMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0035104530     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000047619     Document Type: Article

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