Left atrial volume and the risk of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 644-648

  Tani, Tomoko ^a   Tanabe, Kazuaki ^a   Ono, Miwa ^a   Yamaguchi, Kazuto ^a   Okada, Midori ^a   Sumida, Toshiaki ^a   Konda, Toshiko ^a   Fujii, Yoko ^a   Kawai, Junichi ^a   Yagi, Toshikazu ^a   Sato, Masatake ^a   Ibuki, Motoaki ^a   Katayama, Minako ^a   Tamita, Koichi ^a   Yamabe, Kenji ^a   Yamamuro, Atsushi ^a   Nagai, Kunihiko ^a   Shiratori, Kenichi ^a   Morioka, Shigefumi ^a  

^a KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SINUS RHYTHM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY SURFACE AREA; CARDIAC VOLUME; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 3042830720     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2004.02.010     Document Type: Article

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