Left atrial appendage function and pulmonary venous flow in patients with nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation and their relation to spontaneous echo contrast

Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 37-43

  Bollmann, Andreas ^a   Binias, Karl Heinz ^a   Grothues, Frank ^a   Schwerdtfeger, Andrea ^a   Klein, Helmut U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Left atrial appendage function; Pulmonary venous flow; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG VEIN; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0036119475     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2002.00037.x     Document Type: Article

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