Transesophageal investigation of surgically ligated left atrial appendage

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 617-619

  Oneglia, Carlo ^a,c   Muneretto, Claudio ^b   Rusconi, Cesare ^a  

^a S Orsola Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embolism; Heart surgery; Left atrial appendage; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EMBOLISM; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL RISK; THROMBOGENESIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 7044269133     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.03129.x     Document Type: Article

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