Incidence and factors influencing left atrial clot in patients with mitral stenosis and normal sinus rhythm

Heart

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1342-1343

  Saidi, S Jalal ^a,b   Motamedi, M H K ^a  

^a BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b NONE   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SINUS RHYTHM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 7244236427     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2003.024315     Document Type: Article

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