Relation of left atrial blood stasis to clinical risk factors in atrial fibrillation

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 210-215

  Ohara, Kazumasa ^a   Hirai, Tadakazu ^a   Fukuda, Nobuyuki ^a   Sakurai, Kenji ^a   Nakagawa, Keiko ^a   Nozawa, Takashi ^a   Inoue, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Thromboembolism; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DESCENDING AORTA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 59349097292     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.11.012     Document Type: Article

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