A novel clinical course of free-floating left atrial ball thrombus without mitral stenosis treated by anticoagulants

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 297-299

  Tanoue, Kazuyuki ^a   Sonoda, Masahiro ^a   Maeda, Naoshi ^a   Ikeda, Daisuke ^a   Tashiro, Hitoshi ^a   Tanoue, Kanyou ^a   Terashi, Toshihiko ^a   Nakamura, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KAGOSHIMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anticoagulant; Atrial fibrillation; Free floating ball thrombus; Left atrium

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; UROKINASE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIA; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROKINASE-TYPE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; WARFARIN;

EID: 70349254377     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjcc.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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