Transesophageal Echocardiographic Assessment of Right Atrial Appendage Anatomy and Function: Comparison with the Left Atrial Appendage and Implications for Local Thrombus Formation

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 429-433

  Subramaniam, Balachundhar ^a   Riley, Marilyn F ^a   Panzica, Peter J ^a   Manning, Warren J ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEX RATIO; SINUS RHYTHM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOGENESIS; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33646120324     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2005.10.013     Document Type: Article

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