Predictors of left atrial appendage clot: A transesophageal echocardiographic study of left atrial appendage function in patients with severe mitral stenosis

Indian Heart Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 628-635

  Goswami, Kewal C ^a   Yadav, Rakesh ^a   Bahl, Vinay K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Left atrial appendage function; Left atrial clot; Mitral stenosis

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULSATILE FLOW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 14144253587     PISSN: 00194832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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