Left atrial appendage spontaneous echo contrast in patients with atrial arrhythmias using integrated backscatter and transesophageal echocardiography

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 923-927

  Bashir, Mohammad ^a   Asher, Craig R ^a   Schaffer, Kevin ^a   Murray, R Daniel ^a   Apperson Hansen, Carolyn ^b   Jasper, Susan E ^a   Thomas, James D ^a   Klein, Allan L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SURGERY; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0035886926     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(01)01911-7     Document Type: Article

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