Use of transesophageal echocardiography to guide cardioversion in patients with atrial fibrillation

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 344, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 1411-1420

  Klein, Allan L ^a   Grimm, Richard A ^a   Murray, R Daniel ^a   Apperson Hansen, Carolyn ^a   Asinger, Richard W ^b   Black, Ian W ^c   Davidoff, Ravin ^d   Erbel, Raimund ^e   Halperin, Jonathan L ^f   Orsinelli, David A ^g   Porter, Thomas R ^h   Stoddard, Marcus F ⁱ  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MANLY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^f MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARDIOVERSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINUS RHYTHM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HEMORRHAGE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; WARFARIN;

EID: 0035837496     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200105103441901     Document Type: Article

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