Echocardiographic predictors of left atrial appendage spontaneous echocontrast in patients with stroke and atrial fibrillation

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1362-1365

  Ozer, Necla ^a   Kiliç, Harun ^a   Arslan, Umut ^a   Atalar, Enver ^a   Aksöyek, Serdar ^a   Övünç, Kenan ^a   Ay, Hakan ^a   Öztürk, Ercan ^a   Karaagaoglu, Ergun ^a   Tokgozoglu, Lale ^a   Kes, Sirri S ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 29244449834     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2005.03.023     Document Type: Article

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