Are left atrial appendage flow velocities adequate surrogates of global left atrial function? A population-based transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiographic study

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 433-440

  Agmon, Yoram ^a,b   Khandheria, Bijoy K ^a,b   Meissner, Irene ^a,b   Petterson, Tanya M ^a,b   O'Fallon, W Michael ^a,b   Wiebers, David O ^a,b   Seward, James B ^a,b  

^a Mayo Clinic ^*

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULMONARY VEIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 0036580850     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2002.116826     Document Type: Article

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