Clinical and Echocardiographic Markers of Mortality Risk in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1733-1736

  Khumri, Taiyeb M ^a   Idupulapati, Madhuri ^a   Rader, Valerie J ^a   Nayyar, Sunil ^a   Stoner, Casey N ^a   Main, Michael L ^a  

^a SAINT LUKE S MID AMERICA HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34249884212     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.01.055     Document Type: Article

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