Prevalence of Left Atrial Thrombus and Dense Spontaneous Echo Contrast in Patients With Short-Term Atrial Fibrillation < 48 Hours Undergoing Cardioversion: Value of Transesophageal Echocardiography to Guide Cardioversion

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1403-1408

  Kleemann, Thomas ^a   Becker, Torsten ^a   Strauss, Margit ^a   Schneider, Steffen ^b   Seidl, Karlheinz ^a  

^a Heart Center Ludwigshafen   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Cardioversion; Echocardiography; Thrombus

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARDIOVERSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMORBIDITY; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 70549112061     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.09.015     Document Type: Article

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