D-dimer determination as a screening tool to exclude atrial thrombi in atrial fibrillation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-87

  Somlói, Miklós ^a   Tomcsányi, János ^b   Nagy, Erzsébet ^b   Bodó, Imre ^b   Bezzegh, Attila ^b  

^a Polyclin Hospitaller Bros St J   (Hungary)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOCHROMATOGRAPHY; SCREENING TEST; SENESCENCE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037928460     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(03)00476-4     Document Type: Article

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