Paroxysmal postural dyspnea related to a left atrial ball thrombus

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1691-1694

  Grandmougin, Daniel ^a   Letourneau, Thierry ^b   Favre, Jean Pierre ^b   Barral, Xavier ^b  

^a HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

^b LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; POSTURE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0036841669     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)03858-4     Document Type: Article

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