Left atrial diameter in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: An echocardiographic study

American Heart Journal

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 494-499

  Dittrich, Howard C ^a   Pearce, Lesly A ^a   Asinger, Richard W ^a   McBride, Ruth ^a   Webel, Richard ^a   Zabalgoitia, Miguel ^a   Pennock, Gregory D ^a   Safford, Robert E ^a   Rothbart, Robert M ^a   Halperin, Jonathan L ^a   Hart, Robert G ^a  

^a Stat and Epidemiol Res Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037560398     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(99)70498-9     Document Type: Article

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