Analysis of in vivo left atrial appendage morphology in patients with atrial fibrillation: A direct comparison of transesophageal echocardiography, planar cardiac CT, and segmented three-dimensional cardiac CT

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 87-93

  Budge, Loren P ^a   Shaffer, Katherine M ^a   Moorman, J Randall ^a   Lake, Douglas E ^a   Ferguson, John D ^a   Mangrum, J Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Left atrial appendage; Stroke prevention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 54349116956     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: 15728595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10840-008-9281-7     Document Type: Article

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