Left Atrial Appendage Function and Abnormal Hypercoagulability in Patients with Atrial Flutter

Chest

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1670-1674

  Sakurai, Kenji ^a   Hirai, Tadakazu ^a   Nakagawa, Keiko ^a   Kameyama, Tomoki ^a   Nozawa, Takashi ^a   Asanoi, Hidetsugu ^a   Inoue, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial flutter; Hemostatic markers; Thromboembolism; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ANTIPLASMIN; BETA THROMBOGLOBULIN; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; D DIMER; PLASMIN INHIBITOR; PROTHROMBIN; THROMBIN ANTITHROMBIN COMPLEX; THROMBOCYTE FACTOR 4;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0242636998     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.124.5.1670     Document Type: Article

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