Is there a prethrombotic state in left atrial blood in rheumatic mitral stenosis? [1]

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 144-

  Ghosh, K ^a   Nabar, A ^a   Shetty, S ^a   Soren, D ^a   Mohanty, D ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRATE TRISODIUM; D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN; HEPARIN;

ADULT; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUGLOBULIN LYSIS TEST; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; LETTER; MALE; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0141618354     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.10399     Document Type: Letter

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