Relationship between integrated backscatter and atrial fibrosis in patients with and without atrial fibrillation who are undergoing coronary bypass surgery

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2009, Pages E56-E60

  Wang, Guo Dong ^a   Shen, Lu Hua ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Li, Hong Wei ^a   Zhang, Yu Chen ^a   Chen, Hui ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTEGRATED BACKSCATTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SPIKE WAVE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BIOPSY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TELEMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70249137963     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20420     Document Type: Article

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