Patients at high risk with atrial fibrillation: A prospective and serial follow-up during 12 months with transesophageal echocardiography and cerebral magnetic resonance imaging

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 919-924

  Bernhardt, Peter ^a,c   Schmidt, Harald ^b   Hammerstingl, Christoph ^a   Lüderitz, Berndt ^a   Omran, Heyder ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b ST MARIEN HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c Agatharied Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; PHENPROCOUMON;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMORBIDITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 24344445573     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2005.01.028     Document Type: Article

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