Prevalence of left atrial appendage pseudothrombus filling defects in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing coronary computed tomography angiography

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 164-171

  Saremi, Farhood ^a   Channual, Stephanie ^a   Gurudevan, Swaminatha V ^b   Narula, Jagat ^b   Abolhoda, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; CT angiography; Emboli; Filling defects; Left atrial appendage; Multidetector computed tomography; Thrombus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE PSEUDOTHROMBOSIS FILLING DEFECT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMULATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43849110969     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2008.02.012     Document Type: Article

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