Usefulness of Intensity Variation in the Left Atrial Appendage With Contrast Echocardiography to Predict Ischemic Stroke Recurrence in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 101, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1630-1637

  Okuyama, Hidenobu ^a   Hirono, Osamu ^a   Tamura, Harutoshi ^a   Nishiyama, Satoshi ^a   Takeishi, Yasuchika ^a   Kayama, Takamasa ^a   Kubota, Isao ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; SHU 508;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43549106550     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.01.052     Document Type: Article

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