Transthoracic echocardiographic predictors of the left atrial appendage contraction velocity in stroke patients with sinus rhythm

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 208, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 291-298

  Uslu, Nevzat ^a,b   Nurkalem, Zekeriya ^a   Orhan, Ahmet L ^a   Aksu, Huseyin ^a   Sari, Ibrahim ^a   Soylu, Ozer ^a   Gurdogan, Muhammed ^a   Topcu, Kadir ^a   Gorgulu, Sevket ^a   Eren, Mehmet ^a  

^a DR SIYAMI ERSEK THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Left atrial appendage contraction velocity; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PULSE WAVE; RELIABILITY; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33645218393     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.208.291     Document Type: Article

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