Multi-modality imaging to assess left atrial size, anatomy and function

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1461-1470

  Tops, Laurens F ^a   Van Der Wall, Ernst E ^a   Schalij, Martin J ^a   Bax, Jeroen J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CATHETER ABLATION; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIUM; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38449105195     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2007.116467     Document Type: Review

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