Predictors for maintenance of sinus rhythm after cardioversion in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation

Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 351-357

  Ökçün, Bariş ^a   Yigit, Zerrin ^a   Küçükoglu, M Serdar ^a,b   Mutlu, Haşim ^a   Sansoy, Vedat ^a   Güzelsoy, Deniz ^a   Üner, Sinan ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardioversion; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVERSION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036633202     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2002.00351.x     Document Type: Article

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