Echocardiography in search of a cardioembolic source

Current Problems in Cardiology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 340-358

  Goldman, Martin E ^a   Croft, Lori B ^a   O'Rourke, Robert A ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA DISSECTION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART MYXOMA; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; AORTA DISEASE; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ALGORITHMS; AORTIC DISEASES; ARRHYTHMIA; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIA; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0036688584     PISSN: 01462806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mcd.2002.126742     Document Type: Review

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