Evaluation of left atrial appendage functions according to different etiologies of atrial fibrillation with a tissue doppler imaging technique by using transesophageal echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-181

  Sahin, Tayfun ^a   Ural, Dilek ^a   Kilic, Teoman ^a   Bildirici, Ulas ^a   Kozdag, Güliz ^a   Agacdiken, Aysen ^a   Ural, Ertan ^a  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Left atrial appendage function; Thromboembolic risk; Tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 58749085376     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00794.x     Document Type: Article

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