P wave dispersion and left atrial appendage function for predicting recurrence after conversion of atrial fibrillation and relation of P wave dispersion to appendage function

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 523-530

  Dogan, Abdullah ^a,b   Kahraman, Halil ^a   Ozturk, Mustafa ^a   Avsar, Alaettin ^a  

^a SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Appendage function; Atrial fibrillation; P wave dispersion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; P WAVE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4043145654     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.03133.x     Document Type: Article

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