The feasibility of tissue Doppler acceleration as a new predictor of thrombogenesis in the left atrial appendage associated with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-71

  Takahashi, Noboru ^a   Nakamura, Yoichi ^b   Komatsu, Sumio ^a   Kusano, Kengo F ^c   Ohe, Tohru ^c  

^a MATSUYAMA SHIMIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b EHIME PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Left atrial appendage function; Left atrial appendage thrombus; TEE; Thrombus; Tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOGENESIS; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACCELERATION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 38049156485     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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