Symptomatic atrial fibrillation as the first symptom of a giant left atrial appendage aneurysm [4]

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 614-616

  Conradi, Guido ^a   Deetjen, Anja ^a   Möllmann, Susanne ^a   Hamm, Christian W ^a   Dill, Thorsten ^a  

^a KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DIGOXIN; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; FOLLOW UP; GIANT LEFT ATRIUM APPENDAGE ANEURYSM; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RATE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERIMYOCARDITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; SINUS RHYTHM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; HEART ANEURYSM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 33750913160     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-006-0432-5     Document Type: Letter

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