Evaluating patients with acute ischemic stroke with special reference to newly developed atrial fibrillation in cerebral embolism

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1121-1128

  Tagawa, Minoru ^a,d   Takeuchi, Shigekazu ^b   Chinushi, Masaomi ^c   Saeki, Makihiko ^a   Taniguchi, Yoshinori ^b   Nakamura, Yuichi ^a   Ohno, Hideko ^b   Kitazawa, Keiko ^b   Aizawa, Yoshifusa ^c  

^a Department of Surgery   (Japan)

^b Nagaoka Chuo General Hospital   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d Nagaoka Chuo General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Brain imaging diagnosis; Electrocardiography; Holter ECG; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOLTER MONITORING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NEUROIMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE;

EID: 34548143365     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00823.x     Document Type: Article

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