Role of oral anticoagulation and inoue balloon mitral valvulotomy in presence of left atrial thrombus: A prospective serial transesophageal echocardiographic study

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 594-600

  Kandpal, Bhuwanesh ^a   Garg, Naveen ^a   Anand, K V ^a   Kapoor, Aditya ^a   Sinha, Nakul ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACENOCOUMAROL; ACITROM; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACENOCOUMAROL; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; BALLOON DILATATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0036325464     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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