Right cardiac thrombus in transit among patients with pulmonary thromboemboli

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages E27-E30

  Mollazadeh, Reza ^a   Ostovan, Mohammad Ali ^a   Ardekani, Ali Reza Abdi ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; STREPTOKINASE;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYNCOPE; T WAVE INVERSION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 67650505212     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20386     Document Type: Article

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